Current stress state and principal stress rotations in the vicinity of the Chelungpu fault induced by the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Lin, Weiren ^a   Yeh, En Chao ^b   Ito, Hisao ^a   Hung, Jih Hao ^c   Hirono, Tetsuro ^d   Soh, Wonn ^a   Ma, Kuo Fong ^c   Kinoshita, Masataka ^a   Wang, Chien Ying ^c   Song, Sheng Rong ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRESS MEASUREMENT; TECTONICS;

PRINCIPAL STRESS ROTATIONS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

SEISMOLOGY;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; RUPTURE; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 35948994920     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030515     Document Type: Article

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