The fault ruptures of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake sequence inferred from coseismic crustal deformation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1046-1057

  Huang, Bor Shouh ^a   Yeh, Yeong Tein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE 1976;

CHINA, HEBEI PROVINCE, TANGSHAN;

EID: 0031411405     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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