Serial ruptures of the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California, revealed by three-dimensional excavations

• Main Authors: Seitz, Gordon, Jing, Liu Zeng, Klinger, Yann, Sieh, Kerry, Rubin, Charles M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95540; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8476
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is poorly known if fault slip repeats regularly through many earthquake cycles. Well-documented measurements of successive slips rarely span more than three earthquake cycles. In this paper, we present evidence of six sequential offsets across the San Andreas fault at a site in the Carrizo Plain,...