Using surface creep rate to infer fraction locked for sections of the San Andreas fault system in Northern California from alignment array and GPS data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3094-3114

  Lienkaemper, James J ^a   McFarland, Forrest S ^a   Simpson, Robert W ^b   John, S Caskey ^b  

^a San Francisco State University ^*  (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; GEOLOGIC SLIP RATES; GEOMETRIC DISCONTINUITIES; MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; REGIONAL EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

FAULTING;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; GPS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915749110     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120140117     Document Type: Article

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