Stress change near the Kunlun fault before and after the Ms 8.1 Kunlun earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Liao, Chunting ^a   Zhang, Chunshan ^a   Wu, Manlu ^a   Ma, Yinsheng ^a   Ou, Mingyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Kunlun earthquake; Kunlun fault; Stress change

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOPHYSICS; LAKES; STRESSES; EARTHQUAKES;

CHINA; EARTHQUAKE FAULTS; PRINCIPAL STRESS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; KUNLUN FAULT; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MAXIMUM HORIZONTAL PRINCIPAL STRESS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; QINGHAI PROVINCE; REGIONAL STRUCTURE; STRESS CHANGES;

SEISMOLOGY; FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT; STRESS CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 1242277719     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018106     Document Type: Article

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