Aftershocks of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake reveal complex faulting in the Yuha Desert, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6146-6164

  Kroll, Kayla A ^a   Cochran, Elizabeth S ^b   Richards Dinger, Keith B ^a   Sumy, Danielle F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PRECISION; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

CALIFORNIA; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES; YUHA DESERT;

EID: 84892529101     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010529     Document Type: Article

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