Spatial segmentation characteristic of focal mechanism of aftershock sequence of Wenchuan Earthquake

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2263-2270

  Wang, QinCai ^a,b   Chen, ZhangLi ^a   Zheng, SiHua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Earthquake Administration of Hebei Province   (China)

Author keywords

Moment tensor inversion; Segmentation characteristic; Stress field; Wenchuan Earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349335466     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0367-0     Document Type: Article

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