Possible earthquake rupture connections on mapped California faults ranked by calculated Coulomb linking stresses

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2667-2676

  Parsons, Tom ^a   Field, Edward H ^b   Page, Morgan T ^c   Milner, Kevin ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT SYSTEM; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; INERTIAL EFFECT; LOCALIZED FAULT; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; STATIC COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; TEST REGIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKES;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRESS FIELD; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870846558     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110349     Document Type: Article

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