Fault-normal rupture displacement gradients and the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence of 2019

Katherine M Scharer1, Sinan O Akciz2,3, Scott E K Bennett4, Timothy Dawson5, Christopher B DuRoss6, Ryan D Gold7, Brian Swanson5,8, Benjamin A. Brooks9, Alexander E Morelan III10, Christopher William Douglas Milliner11, Mong-Han Huang12 and Robert Wayne Zinke13, (1)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California State University Fullerton, Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (3)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Geology Minerals Energy and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)California Geological Survey, San Mateo, United States, (6)Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (8)California Geological Survey, Los Angeles, DC, United States, (9)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (10)University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (11)Univserity of Southern California, Venice, CA, United States, (12)University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (13)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States