Millennial recurrence of large earthquakes on the Haiyuan fault near Songshan, Gansu Province, China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1 B, 2007, Pages 14-34

  Liu Zeng, Jing ^a,b   Klinger, Yann ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^c   Lasserre, Cécile ^d   Chen, Guihua ^c   Chen, Wenbing ^c   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Zhang, Biao ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^e Tianzhu Bureau of Earthquake Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; FAULTING; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; COSEISMIC SLIPS; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; REALISTIC EVALUATIONS; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 36749067486     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050118     Document Type: Article

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