Characteristic repeating earthquakes in an arc-continent collision boundary zone: The Chihshang fault of eastern Taiwan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 262-272

  Chen, Kate Huihsuan ^a   Nadeau, Robert M ^b   Rau, Ruey Juin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

arc continent collision; creeping; cross correlation coefficient; earthquake potential; repeating earthquake; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CREEPING; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; TAIWAN;

CAVITY RESONATORS; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CREEP; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SLIP RATE; THRUST FAULT;

ASIA; CHIHSHANG; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 56549104559     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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