Earth science - Strength of the San Andreas

被引:74
作者
Zoback, MD [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Geophys, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
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10.1038/35011181
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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];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Better predictions of earthquake likelihood will be possible only by understanding the physics of faults in the Earth’s crust. But the subject is a tough one. For example, although a new model of the characteristics of the San Andreas fault in California is consistent with some aspects of the available data, it does not account for others.
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