Fault structure control on fault slip and ground motion during the 1999 rupture of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1034-1050

  Heermance, Richard ^a   Shipton, Zoe K ^a   Evans, James P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCIES;

FAULT STRUCTURE CONTROL;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SLIP; GROUND MOTION; SEISMOLOGY;

CHELUNGPU FAULT; TAIWAN;

EID: 0042921060     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010230     Document Type: Article

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