A vertical exposure of the 1999 surface rupture of the Chelungpu Fault at Wufeng, Western Taiwan: Structural and Paleoseismic implications for an active thrust fault

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 914-929

  Lee, Jian Cheng ^a   Chen, Yue Gau ^b   Sieh, Kerry ^c   Mueller, Karl ^d   Chen, Wen Shan ^b   Chu, Hao Tsu ^e   Chan, Yu Chang ^a   Rubin, Charles ^f   Yeats, Robert ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

^f CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EXCAVATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEDIMENTS;

SURFACE RUPTURE;

SEISMOLOGY;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; PALEOSEISMICITY; THRUST FAULT;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0035484878     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000742     Document Type: Article

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