Historical pattern and behavior of earthquake ruptures along the eastern boundary of the Sichuan-Yunnan faulted-block, southwestern China

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 16-36

  Wen, Xue ze ^a,b   Ma, Sheng li ^c   Xu, Xi wei ^c   He, Yong nian ^c  

^a Earthquake Administration of Sichuan Province   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active fault zone; Earthquake behavior; Historical earthquake data; Rupture history; Southwestern China

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HISTORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ACTIVE FAULTING; AFTERSHOCK ZONES; CONTINENTAL (CO); EARTHQUAKE RUPTURES; EASTERN BOUNDARY; ELSEVIER (CO); FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SYSTEMS; FAULT ZONES; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; LONG TIME; MULTI-CYCLE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RUPTURE EXTENT; S INGLE FAULT; SEISMIC GAPS; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SICHUAN; SURFACE RUPTURES; TEMPORAL PATTERN (TRAP);

SEISMOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE; ZEMUHE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 46949110880     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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