The 2014 Mw 6.1 South Napa Earthquake: A unilateral rupture with shallow asperity and rapid afterslip

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 2A, 2015, Pages 344-354

  Wei, Shengji ^a   Barbot, Sylvain ^a   Graves, Robert ^b   Lienkaemper, James J ^c   Wang, Teng ^d   Hudnut, Kenneth ^b   Fu, Yuning ^e   Helmberger, Don ^f  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; NAPA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84927137565     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220140249     Document Type: Article

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