Integration of paleoseismic data from multiple sites to develop an objective earthquake chronology: Application to the Weber segment of the Wasatch fault zone, Utah

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2765-2781

  Duross, Christopher B ^a   Personius, Stephen F ^b   Crone, Anthony J ^b   Olig, Susan S ^c   Lund, William R ^a  

^a UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE INTERVALS; FAULT ZONE; MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PALEOEARTHQUAKE; RANGE-BASED; RUPTURE EXTENT;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PALEOSEISMICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC DATA;

UNITED STATES; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 83255193685     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110102     Document Type: Article

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