Constraints on fault slip rates of the southern California plate boundary from GPS velocity and stress inversions
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Thorsten W. Becker,1,∗ Jeanne L. Hardebeck2 and Greg Anderson3 1Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093, USA 2United States Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 977, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 3UNAVCO, Inc., 6350 Nautilus Drive, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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