Paleoseismic evidence of clustered earthquakes on the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, California

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sieh, Kerry, Grant, Lisa B.
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95542; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8489

Exposures we have excavated across the San Andreas fault contradict the hypothesis that part of the fault in the Carrizo Plain is unusually strong and experiences relatively infrequent rupture. The exposures record evidence of at least seven surface-rupturing earthquakes which have been approximatel...