Shallow seismic structure of Kunlun fault zone in northern Tibetan Plateau, China: Implications for the 2001 M s8.1 Kunlun earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 978-1000

  Wang, Chun Yong ^a   Mooney, Walter D ^b   Ding, Zhifeng ^a   Yang, Jiansi ^a   Yao, Zhixiang ^a   Lou, Hai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Fractures and faults; Guided waves

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; P-WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 66549085338     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04049.x     Document Type: Article

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