12 May 2008 M = 7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake calculated to increase failure stress and seismicity rate on three major fault systems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Lin, Jian ^b   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^c   Stein, Ross S ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COULOMB FAILURES; EARTHQUAKE PROBABILITIES; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAUX; FAILURE STRESSES; FAULT SYSTEMS; FAULT ZONES; SICHUAN; STRESS CHANGES; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS; STRONG MOTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KANGDING; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 57049094441     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034903     Document Type: Article

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