Lecture 23

Paleoseismology

San Andreas fault II

Not given in 2008

8 m

7.55.51.5

8

>5.4

What is the effect of the San Gorgonio

Pass restraining bend?

Event dates at the Burro Flat site

800

An attempt at a Chronology

950

1050

1100

1200

1350

1500

1550

1600

1680

1812

1857

Weldon et al., 2002 and 2004

The Wrightwood site allows a test of the time- and slip-predictable models

periodic time-predictable slip-predictable