Surface rupture and hazard characteristics of wenchuan earthquake with magnitude 8.0 in Sichuan Province

Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2173-2183

  Zhou, Rongjun ^a,b   Huang, Runqiu ^b   Lei, Jiancheng ^a   He, Yulin ^a   Li, Xiaogang ^a   Wang, Shiyuan ^a   Ye, Youqing ^a   Liu, Yufa ^a   Kang, Chuanchuan ^a   Liang, Mingjian ^a   Ge, Tianyong ^a   He, Qiang ^a   Huang, Wei ^a  

^a EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF SICHUAN PROVINCE   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake engineering; Longmenshan tectonic belt; Seismic hazards; Surface rupture of earthquake; Wenchuan M8.0 earthquake

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SURVEYS; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LONGMENSHAN TECTONIC BELT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SURFACE RUPTURE OF EARTHQUAKE; WENCHUAN M8.0 EARTHQUAKE;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 56849101242     PISSN: 10006915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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