THE NATURE OF THE LANDERS-MOJAVE EARTHQUAKE LINE

被引：61

作者：

NUR, A ^{[1
]}

RON, H ^{[1
]}

BEROZA, GC ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] INST PETR RES & GEOPHYS,IL-58852 HOLON,ISRAEL

来源：

SCIENCE | 1993年 / 261卷 / 5118期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.261.5118.201

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The Landers, California, earthquake of 28 June 1992 (magnitude = 7.3) is the latest of six significant earthquakes in the past 60 years whose epicenters and slip directions define a 100-kilometer alignment running approximately N15-degrees-W across the central Mojave region. This pattern may indicate a geologically young throughgoing fault that replaces numerous older strike-slip faults by obliquely cutting across them. These older faults, and perhaps also the bend in the San Andreas fault, may be losing their ability to accommodate upper crustal deformation because they have become unfavorably oriented with respect to the regional stress field.

引用

页码：201 / 203

页数：3

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