Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992 by 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.

“…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. …”
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