Variation of b value with hypocentral depth in Beijing area: Implications for earthquake nucleation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 691-695

  Zhu, Ailan ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Hu, Ping ^b   Zhou, Yongsheng ^a   Chen, Guihua ^a   Gan, Weijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Earthquake Administration of Beijing Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

b value; Beijing area; Earthquake nucleation; Hypocentral depth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749666179     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982004-43     Document Type: Article

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