Visco-elastic stress triggering model of Tangshan earthquake sequence

Acta Seismologica Sinica English Edition

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 585-597

  Wan, Yong Ge ^a,b   Shen, Zheng Kang ^c   Zeng, Yue Hua ^d   Sheng, Shu Zhong ^a   Xu, Xiao Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF DISASTER PREVENTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Stress direction; Stress triggering; Tangshan earthquake; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849090423     PISSN: 10009116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-008-0585-6     Document Type: Article

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