Electronic Supplement to
Reconciling Precariously Balanced Rocks (PBRs) with Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault System

by Lisa Grant Ludwig, James N. Brune, Abdolrasool Anooshehpoor, Mathew D. Purvance, Richard J. Brune, and Julian C. Lozos

Table S1 Measured Fragility Parameters from Tilt Tests and the Parameters Estimated from Photomodeling.

PBR Photomodelling Distances from Center of Mass Tilt Tests
α1 (rad) α2 (rad) R1 (m) R2 (m) α1 α2
GV02 - - - - 0.2541 0.3816
GV03 0.2214 0.4346 0.3546 0.2968 0.1689 0.3125
GV05 - - - - 0.25 0.4961
GV06 - - - - 0.1814 -
SW01 0.2144 0.3755 0.5406 0.5054 - -
SJ08 0.213 0.364 0.4703 0.4736 0.1294 0.3585

Parameters α1 and α2, (in radians) and distances R1 and R2 (in meters) are defined by Purvance et al. (2008) and are illustrated in Figure S8.

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