A leaping, triggered sequence along a segmented fault: The 1951 ML 7.3 Hualien-Taitung earthquake sequence in eastern Taiwan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Kate Huihsuan ^a   Toda, Shinji ^b   Rau, Ruey Juin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SEISMICITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 42149179861     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005048     Document Type: Article

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