Tectonic geomorphology of the southernmost Sagaing fault and surface rupture associated with the may 1930 Pegu (Bago) earthquake, Myanmar

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2155-2168

  Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki ^a   Sato, Takayuki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDAMAN SEA; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; CONVERGENCE ZONES; COULOMB STRESS; DISPLACEMENT RATE; FAULT SCARP; FAULT ZONE; GEOLOGIC FIELDS; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HORIZONTAL MOTION; LATE QUATERNARY; MYANMARS; PRESSURE RIDGE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP RATES; SPATIAL EXTENT; STREAM CHANNELS; SURFACE RUPTURES; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

LANDFORMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COULOMB CRITERION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GPS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDIAN PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; SPREADING CENTER; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ANDAMAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR; SAGAING; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 69549110318     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080113     Document Type: Article

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