Geophysical applications of radar interferometry to measure changes in the Earth's surface
have exploded in the early 1990s. This new geodetic technique calculates the interference …

This article reviews geologic and other evidence constraining the thickness of the principal
slip zone (PSZ) that accommodates the bulk of coseismic shear displacement during an …

A nearly 20-year hiatus in major seismic activity in southern California ended on 4 July 2019
with a sequence of intersecting earthquakes near the city of Ridgecrest, California. This …

Abstract The 2014 Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP14)
present the time‐independent component of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture …

To understand whether the 1992 M= 7.4 Landers earthquake changed the proximity to
failure on the San Andreas fault system, we examine the general problem of how one …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

GEODETIC data, obtained by ground-or space-based techniques, can be used to infer the
distribution of slip on a fault that has ruptured in an earthquake. Although most geodetic …

Many aspects of earthquake mechanics remain an enigma as we enter the closing years of
the twentieth century. One potential bright spot is the realization that simple calculations of …

Occurrence of large earthquakes close to cities in California is inevitable. The resulting
ground shaking will subject buildings in the near-source region to large, rapid displacement …

We investigate the global variation of earthquake stress drops using spectra of about 2000
events of mb≥ 5.5 between 1990 and 2007. We use an iterative least squares method to …