Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults

J Jiang, N Lapusta - Science, 2016 - science.org
Why many major strike-slip faults known to have had large earthquakes are silent in the
interseismic period is a long-standing enigma. One would expect small earthquakes to occur …

A 21-event, 4,000-year history of surface ruptures in the Anza seismic gap, San Jacinto Fault, and implications for long-term earthquake production on a major plate …

TK Rockwell, TE Dawson, J Young Ben-Horin… - Pure and Applied …, 2015 - Springer
Paleoseismic work completed at Hog Lake on the San Jacinto Fault (SJF) near Anza,
California, indicates that at least 21 surface ruptures have occurred in the Anza Seismic gap …

Seismic velocity structure in the Hot Springs and Trifurcation areas of the San Jacinto fault zone, California, from double-difference tomography

AA Allam, Y Ben-Zion, I Kurzon… - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present tomographic images of crustal velocity structures in the complex Hot Springs
and Trifurcation areas of the San Jacinto Fault Zone (SJFZ) based on double-difference …

A case for historic joint rupture of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults

JC Lozos - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
The San Andreas fault is considered to be the primary plate boundary fault in southern
California and the most likely fault to produce a major earthquake. I use dynamic rupture …

Ground motion prediction equations in the San Jacinto fault zone: Significant effects of rupture directivity and fault zone amplification

I Kurzon, FL Vernon, Y Ben-Zion, G Atkinson - Pure and Applied …, 2014 - Springer
We present a new set of Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs) for horizontal Peak
Ground Acceleration, Peak Ground Velocity, and 5% damped pseudo-spectral acceleration …

Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone in the trifurcation area southeast of Anza, California, from data of dense seismic arrays

L Qin, Y Ben-Zion, H Qiu, PE Share… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We image the internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone (SJFZ) in the trifurcation area
southeast of Anza, California, with seismic records from dense linear and rectangular arrays …

Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone at Jackass Flat from data recorded by a dense linear array

H Qiu, Y Ben-Zion, ZE Ross, PE Share… - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The internal structure of the Clark fault in the trifurcation area of the San Jacinto fault zone is
imaged using seismograms recorded by a dense linear array (Jackass Flat, JF) crossing the …

Temporal changes of seismic velocities in the San Jacinto Fault zone associated with the 2016 Mw 5.2 Borrego Springs earthquake

H Qiu, G Hillers, Y Ben-Zion - Geophysical Journal International, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study temporal changes of seismic velocities associated with the 10 June 2016 M w 5.2
Borrego Springs earthquake in the San Jacinto fault zone, using nine component Green's …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term variations in slip rate and size of prehistoric earthquakes during the past 2000 years on the northern San Jacinto fault zone, a major plate-boundary …

NW Onderdonk, SF McGill, TK Rockwell - Lithosphere, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Most of the displacement across the North American− Pacific plate boundary in southern
California is accommodated by the San Jacinto and the southern San Andreas fault zones. If …

Paleoearthquakes at Frazier Mountain, California delimit extent and frequency of past San Andreas Fault ruptures along 1857 trace

K Scharer, R Weldon, A Streig… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Large earthquakes are infrequent along a single fault, and therefore historic, well‐
characterized earthquakes exert a strong influence on fault behavior models. This is true of …