Quantifying focal mechanism heterogeneity for fault zones in central and southern California

IW Bailey, Y Ben-Zion, TW Becker… - Geophysical Journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We present a statistical analysis of focal mechanism orientations for nine California fault
zones with the goal of quantifying variations of fault zone heterogeneity at seismogenic …

Geological observations of damage asymmetry in the structure of the San Jacinto, San Andreas and Punchbowl faults in Southern California: A possible indicator for …

O Dor, TK Rockwell, Y Ben-Zion - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2006 - Springer
We present new in situ observations of systematic asymmetry in the pattern of damage
expressed by fault zone rocks along sections of the San Andreas, San Jacinto, and …

Asymmetric distribution of aftershocks on large faults in California

I Zaliapin, Y Ben-Zion - Geophysical Journal International, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We examine the relations between spatial symmetry properties of earthquake patterns along
faults in California (CA) and local velocity structure images to test the hypothesis that …

Patterns of co-seismic strain computed from southern California focal mechanisms

IW Bailey, TW Becker, Y Ben-Zion - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Geometrical properties of an earthquake population can be described by summation of
seismic potency tensors that provide a strain-based description of earthquake focal …

The relationship of small earthquakes to strain accumulation along major faults in southern California

JC Pechmann - 1983 - thesis.library.caltech.edu
Fault-plane solutions for recent small (ML≤ 4.6) earthquakes in the central Transverse
Ranges, California, were determined using an azimuthally-varying crustal model. The …

Computing a large refined catalog of focal mechanisms for southern California (1981–2010): Temporal stability of the style of faulting

W Yang, E Hauksson… - Bulletin of the …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Using the method developed by,) termed the HASH method, we calculate focal mechanisms
for earthquakes that occurred in the southern California region from 1981 to 2010. When …

Distribution of seismicity across strike‐slip faults in California

PM Powers, TH Jordan - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of seismicity about strike‐slip faults provides measurements of fault
roughness and damage zone width. In California, seismicity decays with distance from strike …

Using corrected and imputed polarity measurements to improve focal mechanisms in a regional earthquake catalog near the Mt. Lewis fault zone, California

RJ Skoumal, JL Hardebeck… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We utilized relative polarity measurements and machine learning techniques to better
resolve focal mechanisms and stress orientations considering a catalog of∼ 29,000 …

A new strategy for earthquake focal mechanisms using waveform‐correlation‐derived relative polarities and cluster analysis: Application to the 2014 Long Valley …

DR Shelly, JL Hardebeck… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In microseismicity analyses, reliable focal mechanisms can typically be obtained for only a
small subset of located events. We address this limitation here, presenting a framework for …

Slip partitioning and deformation cycles close to major faults in southern California: Evidence from small‐scale faults

F Ghisetti - Tectonics, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Geometry and kinematics of small‐scale faults adjacent to large seismically active faults
have been analyzed for a large region of southern California. The sampled population of …