The Greenville fault: Preliminary estimates of its long-term creep rate and seismic potential

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2729-2738

  Lienkaemper, James J ^a   Barry, G Robert ^b   Smith, Forrest E ^b   Mello, Joseph D ^b   McFarland, Forrest S ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEPING ZONES; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; LONG TERM CREEP; PALEOSEISMIC EVIDENCE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; SURFACE RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SURVEYING;

CREEP;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CREEP; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLIP; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884952234     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120169     Document Type: Article

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