Holocene behavior of the Brigham City segment: Implications for forecasting the next large-magnitude earthquake on the Wasatch fault zone, Utah

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2265-2281

  Personius, Stephen F ^a,b   Duross, Christopher B ^c   Crone, Anthony J ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; FAULT ZONE; HOLOCENES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; MOMENT CALCULATION; SEISMIC MOMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FORECASTING METHOD; HOLOCENE; SEISMIC MOMENT;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 84870757750     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110214     Document Type: Article

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