Effects of the Bear Valley and San Juan Bautista earthquakes of 1972 on Geodimeter line lengths

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Abstract

Measurements of lines of the California Geodimeter network in the vicinity of the epicenters of four 1972 earthquakes (magnitudes 4.7, 4.7, 4.8, and 5.1) along the San Andreas fault system indicate that no significant anomalous changes in line length preceded or accompanied those earthquakes. Within the precision of measurement, the data are consistent with a linear change in line length with time. Measurements of two 20-km-long lines made 2 days before and 1 day after a magnitude 4.7 earthquake showed no significant change even though the epicenter of the earthquake was only about 15 km from each of the three stations at the end points of the lines.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Effects of the Bear Valley and San Juan Bautista earthquakes of 1972 on Geodimeter line lengths
Series title Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
DOI 10.1785/BSSA0640010065
Volume 64
Issue 1
Year Published 1974
Language English
Publisher Seismological Society of America
Contributing office(s) Earthquake Science Center
Description 8 p.
First page 65
Last page 72
Country United States
State California
Other Geospatial San Juan Bauista
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