Contemporary seismicity in and around the yakima fold-and-thrust belt in Eastern Washington

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 309-320

  Gomberg, J ^a   Sherrod, B ^a   Trautman, M ^b   Burns, E ^c   Snyder, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; CRUSTAL-SCALE STRUCTURE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CHANGES; NEAR-SURFACE; REGIONAL AQUIFERS; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEISMICITY PATTERN; WASHINGTON;

AQUIFERS; FAULT SLIPS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AQUIFER; BASALT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SEISMICITY; SLIP; WATER LEVEL;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84857165789     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110065     Document Type: Article

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