Paleoearthquakes at Frazier Mountain, California delimit extent and frequency of past San Andreas Fault ruptures along 1857 trace

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4527-4534

  Scharer, Katherine ^a   Weldon II, Ray ^b   Streig, Ashley ^b   Fumal, Thomas ^a,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Bend; paleoseismology; rupture history; southern San Andreas Fault

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BEHAVIOR MODEL; BIG BEND; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; PALEOEARTHQUAKE; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; RUPTURE LENGTH; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SURFACE RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84904073866     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060318     Document Type: Article

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