Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone

Kejie Chen; Jean-Philippe Avouac; Saif Aati; Chris Milliner; Fu Zheng; Chuang Shi

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13750-w

Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone

Kejie Chen,
Jean-Philippe Avouac,
Saif Aati,
Chris Milliner,
Fu Zheng,
Chuang Shi

Affiliations

Kejie Chen: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Jean-Philippe Avouac: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Saif Aati: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Chris Milliner: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Fu Zheng: School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University
Chuang Shi: School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13750-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors here investigate in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in Searles Valley, California. Based on geodetic and seismological data, the authors separate the event into two earthquakes (Mw 6.5 and 7.1) and produce kinematic slip models of the event.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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