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The Black Mountain asperity - Seismic hazard of the southern San Francisco Peninsula, CaliforniaA slip deficit region running 75 km from Black Mountain south of Palo Alto to San Juan Battista is studied to assess earthquake hazard. If this region were ruptured in its entirety, the event would produce a M-sub-s = 6.9 earthquake. The conditional probability of this rupturing in the near future is the highest of any section of the San Andreas fault except Parkfield. This earthquake would rupture 30 km farther northwest and be about 3 times larger than that previously proposed by others (Lindh, 1983, and Sykes and Nishenko, 1984). This constitutes a greater risk to the southern San Francisco Peninsula than previously expected.
Document ID
19860028010
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Scholz, C. H.
(Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory; Columbia University Palisades, NY, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 12
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
86A12748
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-446
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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