Geometry of the fault zone of the 2003 Ms = 7.5 Chuya earthquake and associated stress fields, Gorny Altai

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 276-294

  Lunina, Oxana V ^a   Gladkov, Andrei S ^a   Novikov, Igor S ^b   Agatova, Anna R ^b   Vysotskii, Evgenii M ^b   Emanov, Alexei A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^b ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chuya earthquake; Co seismic deformations; Fault zone; Gorny Altai; Stress fields

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CHUYA EARTHQUAKE 2003; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FRACTURE; KINEMATICS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 44649100214     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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