The nature of the Landers-Mojave earthquake line
Nur A, Ron H, Beroza GC. 1993. The nature of the Landers-Mojave earthquake line. Science. 261(5118):201-203
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.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Nur, Amo; Ron, Hagai; Beroza, Gregory
- Units
- DEVA
- Keywords
- Active Faults, Aftershocks, Analytic, California, compression, Crust, Death Valley National Monument CA, Death Valley National Park CA, DEVA, Earthquakes, fault planes, Faults, Focal mechanism, GRBIB, Landers earthquake 1992, Landers Mojave Line, Mojave Desert, Neotectonics, oblique orientation, San Bernardino County CA, Seismology, seismotectonics, Serial, Sketch Maps, Southern California, Spatial Distribution, stress fields, Tectonics, United States, upper crust