Our research in Southern California: papers per region

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Wayne Thatcher
Ross Stein
Fred Pollitz
Chuck Wicks
Tom Parsons
Jessica Murray
Ingrid Johanson
Volkan Sevilgen

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Shinji Toda
Jian Lin
Serkan Bozkurt
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Graphic-rich dislocation and stress transfer software

Research in the Parkfield - Coalinga area

F. F. Pollitz,: Transient rheology of the uppermost mantle beneath the Mojave Desert, California, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 215, 89-104, 2003.; [Printable article (3.5 Mb)]

S. Toda and R. S. Stein,: Response of the San Andreas Fault to the 1983 Coalinga-Nuñez Earthquakes: An Application of Interaction-based Probabilities for Parkfield, J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000172 (2002).; [Printable article (3.3Mb)]

R. S. Stein and G. E. Ekström,: Seismicity and geometry of a 110-km long blind thrust fault, 2, Synthesis of the 1982-85 California earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 4865-4883, 1992.

G. Ekström, R. S. Stein, J. P. Eaton and D. Eberhart-Phillips,: Seismicity and geometry of a 110-km long blind thrust fault, 1, The 1985 Kettleman Hills, California, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 4843-4864, 1992.

R. Stein and R. S. Yeats,: Hidden Earthquakes, Sci. Am., 260, pp. 48-57, June, 1989.; [Online article]

R. S. Stein and G. C. P. King,: Seismic potential revealed by surface folding: The 1983 Coalinga, California, earthquake, Science, 224, pp. 869-872, 1984.

Research in the Kern County area

G. W. Bawden,: Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: a joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations, J. Geophys. Res., 106, pp. 771-785, 2001.; [Printable article (4.5Mb)]

G. Bawden, A. J. Michael and L. H. Kellogg,: Birth of a fault: Connecting the Kern County and Walker Pass, California, earthquakes, Geology, 27, pp. 601-604, 1999.; [Online article][Printable article (666 kb)]

G. W. Bawden, A. Donnellan, L. H. Kellogg, D. Dong and J. B. Rundle,: Geodetic measurements of horizontal strain near the White Wolf fault, Kern County, California, J. Geophys. Res., 102, pp. 4,933-4,955, 1997.; [Printable article (2.9Mb)]

R. S. Stein and W. Thatcher,: Seismic and aseismic deformation associated with the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake and the relationship to the Quaternary history of the White Wolf fault, Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, pp. 4913-4928, 1981.

Research in the Coso Range area

C. Wicks, W. Thatcher, F. Monastero and M. Hasting,: Steady-State Deformation of the Coso Range, East-Central California, Inferred from Satellite Radar Interferometry, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, pp. 13769 - 13780, 2001.; [Online article][Printable article (2.5Mb)]

Research in the Los Angeles Basin area

G. W. Bawden, W. Thatcher, R. S. Stein, K. W. Hudnut and G. Peltzer,: Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects, Nature, 412, pp. 812-815, 2001.; [Online article][Printable article (1Mb)]

K. M. Hodgkinson, R. Stein, K. W. Hudnut, J. Satalich, A. Lilje and J. Richards,: Repair and restoration of geodetic infrastructure affected by the 1994 Northridge, California earhtquake (including 70-page report, 40" x 60" color map, CD-ROM. slide-set and website), USGS Open File Report, 96-517, pp. 1996.; [Online article]; Bound color copies of this report, which includes a CD with all the data file, and a 3'x4' color map, is available on request

R. S. Stein,: Northridge Earthquake: Which fault and what next?, Nature, 373, pp. 388-389, 1995.

R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,: Stress triggering of the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake by its predecessors, Science, 265, pp. 1432-1435, 1994.; [Online article]

J. Lin and R. S. Stein,: Coseismic folding, earthquake recurrence, and the 1987 source mechanism at Whittier Narrows, Los Angeles Basin, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, pp. 9614-9632, 1989.; [Online article] [Appendix] [Table 3A]

R. Stein and R. S. Yeats,: Hidden Earthquakes, Sci. Am., 260, pp. 48-57, June, 1989.; [Online article][Cover of Scientific American][Review of this article in Time Magazine]

Research in the Eastern California Shear Zone area

J. Sauber, W. Thatcher and S. C. Solomon,: Geodetic measurement of deformation in the central Mojave Desert, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, pp. 12,683-12,693, 1986.

Research in the Landers area

F. F. Pollitz and I.S. Sacks,: Stress triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by transient deformation following the 1992 Landers earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1487-1496 (2002).; [Online article][Printable article (1.47Mb)]

F. F. Pollitz, G. Peltzer and R. Burgmann,: Mobility of continental mantle: Evidence from postseismic geodetic observations following the 1992 Landers earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 105, pp. 8035-8054, 2000.; [Printable article (4.6Mb)]

T. Parsons and D. Dreger,: Static-stress impact of the 1992 Landers earthquake sequence on nucleation and slip at the site of the 1999 M=7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, southern California., Geophys. Res. Let., 27, pp. 1949-1952, 2000.; [Online article]

T. Parsons, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and P. A. Reasenberg,: Stress sensitivity of fault seismicity: A comparison between limited-offset oblique and major strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,183-20,202, 1999.; [Online article][Printable article (2.04 Mb)]

G. C. P. King, R. S. Stein and J. Lin,: Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 84, pp. 935-953, 1994.; [Online article][Printable article (1.99 Mb)]

R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,: Change in failure stress on the southern San Andreas fault system caused by the 1992 Magnitude=7.4 Landers earthquake, Science, 258, pp. 1328-1332, 1992.; [Online article]

R. S. Stein and M. Lisowski,: The 1979 Homestead Valley earthquake sequence, California: Control of aftershocks and postseismic deformation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, pp. 6477-6490, 1983.

Research in the Salton Trough area

T. Parsons and J. McCarthy,: Crustal and upper mantle velocity structure of the Salton Trough, southeast California, Tectonics, 15, pp. 456-471, 1996.

Research in the Imperial Valley area

N. E King and W. Thatcher,: The coseismic slip distribution of the 1940 and 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquakes and their implications, J. Geohys. Res., 103, pp. 18,069-18,086, 1998.