Meso- and microstructural analysis of coseismic shear zone of the 1999 Mw 7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 486-501

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Lee, Chyi Tyi ^b   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a   Chen, Allen ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS;

COSEISMIC SLIPS; FAULT GAUGE ZONES; SHEAR ZONES; SURFACE RUPTURE;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; SHEAR ZONE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 20444410397     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040015     Document Type: Article

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