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Slip during the 1906 earthquake

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Illustration showing a crude line drawing of a bay and land, and colored plates to show degrees of slip in tectonic plates.
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Slip during the 1906 earthquake is resolved from geodetic measurements before and after the earthquake (Thatcher et al., 1997).

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Thatcher et al., 1997
Thatcher, W., Marshall, G., and Lisowski, M. ( 1997), Resolution of fault slip along the 470‐km‐long rupture of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its implications, J. Geophys. Res., 102( B3), 5353– 5367, doi:10.1029/96JB03486

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