Is stress accumulating on the creeping section of the San Andreas fault?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 6101-6105

  Johnson, K M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fault creep; interseismic coupling

Indexed keywords

CREEP RATES; EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; FAULT CREEP; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; PHYSICAL MODEL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SMALL AREA; STRESS ACCUMULATION;

EARTHQUAKES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SLIP FORMING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT SLIPS;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STICK-SLIP; STRESS;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891608367     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058184     Document Type: Article

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