Can intraplate earthquakes produce stronger shaking than at plate boundaries?
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 15:01
in Earth & Climate
New information about the extent of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake rupture, which occurs in an area with many small and discontinuous faults, may support a hypothesis proposed by other workers that these types of quakes could produce stronger ground shaking than plate boundary earthquakes underlain by oceanic crust, like many of those taking place along the San Andreas fault.