The 16 September 1994 earthquake (mb=6.5) in the Taiwan strait and its tectonic implications

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-29

  Kao, Honn ^a   Wu, Francis T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision zone; Earthquake source parameters; Taiwan strait; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030094292     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.1996.7.1.13(t)     Document Type: Article

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