Interseismic crustal deformation in the Taiwan plate boundary zone revealed by GPS observations, seismicity, and earthquake focal mechanisms

Tectonophysics

Volumn 479, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 4-18

  Hsu, Ya Ju ^a   Yu, Shui Beih ^a   Simons, Mark ^b   Kuo, Long Chen ^a   Chen, Horng Yue ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake focal mechanism; GPS; Seismicity; Strain rate; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CENTRAL RANGES; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL STRESS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GRID NODE; MAINSHOCK; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; P WAVES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRESS AXES; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRESS TENSORS; SURFACE STRAINS; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME PERIODS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; VARIABLE DENSITY;

EARTHQUAKES; FOCUSING; FORESTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSORS; TOOLS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

STRAIN RATE;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LONGITUDINAL VALLEY; TAIWAN;

EID: 70349707105     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.016     Document Type: Article

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