Rupture directivity and source-process time of the September 20, 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake estimated from Rayleigh-wave phase velocity

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1171-1176

  Hwang, Ruey Der ^a   Yu, Guey Kuen ^a   Wang, Jeen Hwa ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

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

EID: 20644435823     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352412     Document Type: Article

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