Synchronous ruptures along a major graben-forming fault system: Wasatch and West Valley fault zones, Utah

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-37

  Duross, Christopher B ^a,b   Hylland, Michael D ^a  

^a UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

ANTITHETIC FAULTING; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; INDEPENDENT SOURCES; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; MECHANICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GRABEN; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY;

SALT LAKE VALLEY; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 84922183417     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120140064     Document Type: Article

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