P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

B Schmandt, FC Lin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mantle seismic structure beneath the United States spanning from the active western plate
margin to the passive eastern margin was imaged with teleseismic P and S wave traveltime …

Unified structural representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle

JH Shaw, A Plesch, C Tape, MP Suess… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new, 3D description of crust and upper mantle velocity structure in southern
California implemented as a Unified Structural Representation (USR). The USR is …

The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity

DM Veedu, S Barbot - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The deep extension of the San Andreas Fault is believed to be creeping, but the recent
observations of tectonic tremors from these depths indicate a complex deformation style. In …

Localized seismic deformation in the upper mantle revealed by dense seismic arrays

A Inbal, JP Ampuero, RW Clayton - Science, 2016 - science.org
Seismicity along continental transform faults is usually confined to the upper half of the crust,
but the Newport-Inglewood fault (NIF), a major fault traversing the Los Angeles basin, is …

Analysis of teleseismic P waves with a 5200‐station array in Long Beach, California: Evidence for an abrupt boundary to Inner Borderland rifting

B Schmandt, RW Clayton - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze teleseismic P waves from four Mw≥ 6.5 earthquakes recorded by a petroleum
industry survey in Long Beach, California. The survey used a 2‐D array with up to 5200 …

Seismic velocity structure and anisotropy of the Alaska subduction zone based on surface wave tomography

Y Wang, C Tape - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Southcentral Alaska is a complex tectonic region that transitions from subduction of Pacific
crust to flat slab subduction—and collision—of overthickened Yakutat crust. Because much …

Fault geometry inversion and slip distribution of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah earthquake from geodetic data

MH Huang, EJ Fielding, H Dickinson… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah (EMC) earthquake in Baja, California,
and Sonora, Mexico, had primarily right‐lateral strike‐slip motion and a minor normal‐slip …

Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake: Observations, Kinematic Inversions, and Dynamic Models

C Rollins, S Barbot, JP Avouac - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2015 - Springer
Due to its location on a transtensional section of the Pacific-North American plate boundary,
the Salton Trough is a region featuring large strike-slip earthquakes within a regime of …

Mapping the Alaskan Moho

MS Miller, L Moresi - Seismological Research Letters, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a series of Moho depth maps for the Alaskan region based on P receiver
function estimates using data from all available broadband instrumentation from 1999 to …

Crustal magmatism and lithospheric geothermal state of western North America and their implications for a magnetic mantle

J Wang, CF Li - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The western North American lithosphere experienced extensive magmatism and
large-scale crustal deformation due to the interactions between the Farallon and North …