Application to Wells Nevada Earthquake

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nsa9.php

www.kcbs.com

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=81213

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2707850

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/

Slip distribution from the inversion of 7 three-component, broadband displacement records. The hypocenter at 7 km depth is shown as the black square. The rupture is down dip and bilateral. The slip outside the main two asperity patch is not considered to be well resolved.

Nearby seismometers

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~dreger/wells_nv.htm

Map view seismological solution (SE dip)

40 cm slip along blind 3D dislocationOld location; now thought to dip the other direction)

Slip = 1 mLength = 15 kmTop at 0 depth60° dip

Slip = 0.4 mLength = 15 kmTop at 7 km along fault60° dip

Faults from ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/maps/qfault/