Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico

The geometry of faults is usually thought to be more complicated at the surface than at depth and to control the initiation, propagation and arrest of seismic ruptures. The fault system that runs from southern California into Mexico is a simple strike-slip boundary: the west side of California and M...

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Main Authors: Wei, Shengji, Fielding, Eric, Leprince, Sebastien, Sladen, Anthony, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Helmberger, Don, Hauksson, Egill, Chu, Risheng, Simons, Mark, Hudnut, Kenneth, Briggs, Richard, Herring, Thomas A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73999