Potential for larger earthquakes in the East San Francisco Bay Area due to the direct connection between the Hayward and Calaveras Faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2734-2741

  Chaussard, E ^a   Burgmann R ^a   Fattahi, H ^b   Nadeau, R M ^a   Taira, T ^a   Johnson, C W ^a   Johanson, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

characteristically repeating earthquakes; connection; creep; Hayward Calaveras Faults; InSAR

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CONNECTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

FAULTING;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARD; WATER DEPTH;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929504023     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063575     Document Type: Article

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