Earthquake Prediction in the Intermountain Seismic Belt—An Intraplate Extensional Regime

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the late Miocene to Holocene displacement history of one of these, the Grand Valley fault system in southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming, indicates that a locus of high displacement rates has migrated away from the eastern Snake River Plain (SRP) to its present location in southern Star Valley in western Wyoming.

TL;DR: The Cordillera Bianca fault zone is a major west dipping normal fault that bounds the west side of a 120- to 170-km-wide zone of active extension along the crest of the northern Peruvian Andes as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The left-lateral Xianshuihe fault is one of the world's most active faults, having produced at least 8 earthquakes of M > 7 since 1725 on a 350-km-long segment of the fault as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study of focal mechanisms of digitally recorded earthquakes (ML ≦ 4.4) that occurred in the Wasatch front region in Utah during 1980 to 1986 was performed.

TL;DR: In this article, a major variation in principal stress orientation is observed between the Atlantic Coast and mid-continent areas, and the authors suggest that these transitions can be abrupt, occurring over <75 km in places.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of the calculated and observed rates of the motion for the Yellowstone plume with respect to that for the North American plate was made, and it was concluded that the Yellowstone plate has remained stationary relative to the Hawaiian plume.

TL;DR: The Colorado Plateau (CP) is a relatively coherent block surrounded on three sides by the extensional block faulted regime of the Basin and Range Province (BRP) and the Rio Grande Rift (RGR).