Surface slip during large Owens Valley earthquakes

Data sets and expanded results contributing to this study are available in the supporting information. The EarthScope Southern and Eastern California Lidar Project (available online at http://opentopo.sdsc.edu) involved data acquisition and processing for the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) by NCALM (http://www.ncalm.org). UNAVCO operates the PBO for EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org), supported by the National Science Foundation (EAR-0350028 and EAR-0732947). Funding for this study was provided by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) (Project 12140), the Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research fund, the Community Foundation of San Bernardino county, and the Western Washington University Geology Department. We thank G. Seitz, M. Price, and K. Morgan for assistance in the field, and S. Bacon, J. Arrowsmith, R. Weldon, K. Scharer, J. Unruh, C. Madden-Madugo, and D. Haddad for helpful discussions. Constructive reviews by D. Schwartz, R. Briggs, E. Schermer, D. Clark, and one anonymous reviewer substantially improved the paper. We also thank the staff at the UC White Mountain Research Center for facilitating this work. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.