Complementary slip distributions of the largest earthquakes in the 2012 Brawley swarm, Imperial Valley, California

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 847-852

  Wei, Shengji ^a   Helmberger, Don ^a   Owen, Susan ^b   Graves, Robert W ^c   Hudnut, Kenneth W ^c   Fielding, Eric J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brawley Earthquake Swarm Imperial Valley; geothermal; high rate GPS; strong motion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; GEOTHERMAL; HIGH RATE; HIGH-RATE GPS DATUM; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHWORKS; RUPTURE; SLIP; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; IMPERIAL VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876784958     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50259     Document Type: Article

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