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Science 9 July 1993:
Vol. 261. no. 5118, pp. 201 - 203
DOI: 10.1126/science.261.5118.201
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The Nature of the Landers-Mojave Earthquake Line
Amos Nur 1,
Hagai Ron 1, and
Gregory C. Beroza 1
1 Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2215
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°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.
Submitted on February 12, 1993
Accepted on April 26, 1993
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