Multi-timescale mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto fault and the San Andreas fault, southern California

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-229

  Luo, Gang ^a   Liu, Mian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL COUPLING; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATIC COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; VISCOELASTO PLASTICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATE MOTION; SEISMICITY; TIMESCALE; VISCOPLASTICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; SAN JACINTO FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870794767     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L180.1     Document Type: Article

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