Scientific Drilling Into the San Andreas Fault Zone

  1. mark Zoback1
  2. Stephen Hickman2
  3. William Ellsworth2

Article first published online: 3 JUN 2011

DOI: 10.1029/2010EO220001

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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

Volume 91, Issue 22, pages 197–199, 1 June 2010

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Zoback, mark, S. Hickman, and W. Ellsworth (2010), Scientific Drilling Into the San Andreas Fault Zone, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(22), 197–199, doi:10.1029/2010EO220001.

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  1. 1

    Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif

  2. 2

    U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.

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  1. Issue published online: 3 JUN 2011
  2. Article first published online: 3 JUN 2011

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Keywords:

  • SAFOD program;
  • earthquake research;
  • San Andreas Fault

This year, the world has faced energetic and destructive earthquakes almost every month. In January, an M = 7.0 event rocked Haiti, killing an estimated 230,000 people. In February, an M = 8.8 earthquake and tsunami claimed over 500 lives and caused billions of dollars of damage in Chile. Fatal earthquakes also occurred in Turkey in March and in China and Mexico in April.

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