Trench logs of earthquake scarp of the MS8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in the segment north of Beichuan

Dizhen Dizhi

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 697-709

  Zheng, Wen Jun ^a   Li, Chuan You ^a   Wang, Wei Tao ^a   Yin, Jin Hui ^a   Wei, Zhan Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake events; Longmenshan thrust belt; Tectonic deformation; Trench information; Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; THRUST FAULT; TRENCH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 60649096119     PISSN: 02534967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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