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Science 9 April 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5105, pp. 171 - 176
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5105.171
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Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

Kerry Sieh 1, Lucile Jones 2, Egill Hauksson 1, Kenneth Hudnut 2, Donna Eberhart-Phillips 2, Thomas Heaton 2, Susan Hough 2, Kate Hutton 1, Hiroo Kanamori 1, Anne Lilje 1, Scott Lindvall 3, Sally F. McGill 4, James Mori 2, Charles Rubin 5, James A. Spotila 1, Joann Stock 1, Hong Kie Thio 1, Jerome Treiman 6, Brian Wernicke 1, and Judith Zachariasen 1

1 Seismological Laboratory 252-21, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA 91106
3 Lindvall Richter Benuska Associates, Los Angeles, CA 90041
4 Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407
5 Central Washington State University, Ellensburg, WA 98926
6 California Division of Mines and Geology, Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Landers earthquake, which had a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.3, was the largest earthquake to strike the contiguous United States in 40 years. This earthquake resulted from the rupture of five major and many minor right-lateral faults near the southern end of the eastern California shear zone, just north of the San Andreas fault. Its Mw 6.1 preshock and Mw 6.2 aftershock had their own aftershocks and foreshocks. Surficial geological observations are consistent with local and far-field seismologic observations of the earthquake. Large surficial offsets (as great as 6 meters) and a relatively short rupture length (85 kilometers) are consistent with seismological calculations of a high stress drop (200 bars), which is in turn consistent with an apparently long recurrence interval for these faults.


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Fault-zone waves observed at the southern Joshua Tree earthquake rupture zone.
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Postseismic deformation following the Landers earthquake, California, 28 June 1992.
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Continuous borehole strain in the San Andreas fault zone before, during, and after the 28 June 1992, MW 7.3 Landers, California, earthquake.
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Slip triggered on southern California faults by the 1992 Joshua Tree, Landers, and big bear earthquakes.
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Southern surface rupture associated with the M 7.3 1992 Landers, California, earthquake.
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Eureka Peak fault afterslip following the 28 June 1992 Landers earthquake.
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Triggered seismicity and deformation between the Landers, California, and Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, earthquakes.
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Triggering of the Ms = 5.4 Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, earthquake with dynamic strains.
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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84, 844-853
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Seismicity in the western Great Basin apparently triggered by the Landers, California, earthquake, 28 June 1992.
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Foreshocks, aftershocks, and earthquake probabilities: Accounting for the landers earthquake.
L. M. Jones (1994)
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84, 892-899
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State of stress from focal mechanisms before and after the 1992 landers earthquake sequence.
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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84, 917-934
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Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes.
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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84, 935-953
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Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake.
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