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Data from theodolite measurements of creep rates on San Francisco Bay region faults, California: 1979-2001

Open-File Report 2002-225
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02225

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My purpose is to make our creep data on San Francisco Bay region active faults available to the scientific research community. My student research assistants and I measured creep (aseismic slip) rates on these faults from 1979 until my retirement from the project in 2001. These data are further described in my final technical report as principal investigator, which summarizes results from 22 September 1979 through 28 February 2001 (Galehouse, 2001). We made over 2,600 creep measurements, about one-third in the ten years prior to the Loma Prieta earthquake (LPEQ) and two-thirds in the 11.4 years following it. The measurements are continuing to be made by members of the Geosciences Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU) under the direction of Karen Grove and John Caskey. A complete analysis of our results obtained on the Hayward fault is presented in Lienkaemper, Galehouse, and Simpson (2001). A formal report based on the entire San Francisco Bay region data set is in preparation. Data sheets for each site along the fault are available for downloading in Excel format to facilitate analysis of the data. They are also available as tab-delimited raw data. The data include all regular measurement sites, SF–1 through SF–34, and the 20 SFSU and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) afterslip sites on the Hayward fault.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Data from theodolite measurements of creep rates on San Francisco Bay region faults, California: 1979-2001
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2002-225
DOI 10.3133/ofr02225
Year Published 2002
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Earthquake Science Center
Description Report: 94 p.; Haward Fault: 1 XLS file, 1 .GZ file; SF Bay: 1 XLS file, 1 SF .GZ file
Country United States
State California
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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