The 16 September 1994 Taiwan Strait earthquake: a simple rupture event starting as a break of asperity

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 269-284

  Zheng, Tian yu ^a   Ai, Yin shuang ^a   Chen, Qi zhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; TAIWAN;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE;

TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 0032507558     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00085-5     Document Type: Article

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