Co-seismic thrusting rupture and slip distribution produced by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 471, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 203-215

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Ren, Zhikun ^a   Jia, Dong ^b   Wu, Xiaojun ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake; Longmen Shan Thrust Belt; Sichuan Basin; Thrusting slip; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

2008 MW 7.9 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; LONGMEN SHAN THRUST BELT; SICHUAN BASIN; THRUSTING SLIP; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EARTHQUAKES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; FIELD METHOD; INDIAN PLATE; SLIP;

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

EID: 67349252464     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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