Seismogenic faults along the major suture of the plate boundary deduced by dislocation modeling of coseismic displacements of the 1951 M7.3 Hualien-Taitung earthquake sequence in eastern Taiwan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 416-426

  Chung, Ling Ho ^a   Chen, Yue Gau ^a   Wu, Yih Min ^a   Shyu, J Bruce H ^a,b   Kuo, Yu Ting ^a   Lin, Yu Nong Nina ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active fault; Coseismic displacement; Dislocation model; Plate boundary; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COSEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; EPICENTER DISTRIBUTION; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DISLOCATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT GEOMETRY; GPS; MODELING; OBLIQUE FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUTURE ZONE; TRIANGULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 43249116285     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.035     Document Type: Article

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