The UCERF3 grand inversion: Solving for the long-term rate of ruptures in a fault system

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1181-1204

  Page, Morgan T ^a   Field, Edward H ^a   Milner, Kevin R ^b   Powers, Peter M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SEGMENTATION; INVERSION METHODOLOGY; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; MODEL RESULTS; PARALLEL SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SYNTHETIC TESTS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FORECASTING METHOD; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903731370     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120130180     Document Type: Article

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