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Title: Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992
Authors: Hauksson, Egill
Hudnut, Kenneth
Eberhart-Phillips, Donna
Heaton, Thomas
Sieh, Kerry
Hough, Susan
Hutton, Kate
Kanamori, Hiroo
Lilje, Anne
Lindvall, Scott
Stock, Joann
Thio, Hong Kie
Treiman, Jerome
Zachariasen, Judith
McGill, Sally F.
Mori, James.
Spotila, James A.
Jones, Lucile M.
Rubin, Charles M.
Wernicke, Brian P.
Keywords: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
Issue Date: 1993
Source: Sieh, K., Jones, L. M., Hauksson, E., Hudnut, K., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Heaton, T., et al. (1993). Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992. Science, 260(5105), 171-176.
Series/Report no.: Science
Abstract: The Landers earthquake, which had a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.3, was the largest earthquake to strike the contiguous United States in 40 years. This earthquake resulted from the rupture of five major and many minor right-lateral faults near the southern end of the eastern California shear zone, just north of the San Andreas fault. Its Mw 6.1 preshock and Mw 6.2 aftershock had their own aftershocks and foreshocks. Surficial geological observations are consistent with local and far-field seismologic observations of the earthquake. Large surficial offsets (as great as 6 meters) and a relatively short rupture length (85 kilometers) are consistent with seismological calculations of a high stress drop (200 bars), which is in turn consistent with an apparently long recurrence interval for these faults.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95299
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9234
ISSN: 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5105.171
Rights: © 1993 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fulltext Permission: none
Fulltext Availability: No Fulltext
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