Contemporary tectonic stress field around the Ordos fault block inferred from earthquake focal mechanisms

Dizhen Dizhi

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-99

  Fan, Jun xi ^a   Ma, Jin ^a   Diao, Gui ling ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Hebei Province   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake focal mechanism; Ordos fault block; Tectonic stress field

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; ORIENTATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA;

EID: 0042565981     PISSN: 02534967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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