Rupture process of southern Taiwan offshore Ms 7.2 earthquake of Dec. 12, 2006

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1103-1113

  Guo, Zhi ^a,b   Gao, Xing ^a   Wang, Wei Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Finite fault model; Focal mechanism; Simulated annealing method; Southern Taiwan offshore; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

DIP; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; NORMAL FAULT; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 53949091405     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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