A record of large earthquakes during the past two millennia on the southern Green Valley fault, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2386-2403

  Lienkaemper, James J ^a   Baldwin, John N ^b   Turner, Robert ^c   Sickler, Robert R ^a   Brown, Johnathan ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Lettis Consultants International Inc   (United States)

^c William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; MODEL COEFFICIENT; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RADIOCARBON DATA; STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEANS;

CREEP; FAULTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRATIGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

CREEP; DEPOSITION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FISSURE; NORMAL FAULT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECURRENCE INTERVAL;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881075016     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120198     Document Type: Article

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