Low footwall accelerations and variable surface rupture behavior on the fort sage mountains fault, Northeast California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-168

  Briggs, Richard W ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^b   Brune, James N ^b   Purvance, Matthew D ^c   Mahan, Shannon A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN AND RANGE; CALIFORNIA; FAULT ZONE; FIELD TEST; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; IN-SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NEAR-FAULT; NORMAL FAULTS; PALEOEARTHQUAKE; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE RUPTURES; WALKER LANE;

EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

FAULTING;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FOOTWALL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC MOMENT;

CALIFORNIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BASIN;

EID: 84873517008     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110313     Document Type: Article

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