Estimate of differential stress in the upper crust from variations in topography and strike along the San Andreas fault
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Yuri Fialko,1 Luis Rivera2 and Hiroo Kanamori3 1Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Ecole et Observatoire de Sciences de la Terre, Universite Louis Pasteur-CNRS, Strasbourg, France. E-mail: [email protected] 3Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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