Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 718-724

  Shen, Zheng Kang ^a,b,c   Sun, Jianbao ^a   Zhang, Peizhen ^a   Wan, Yongge ^d   Wang, Min ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^e   Zeng, Yuehua ^f   Gan, Weijun ^a   Liao, Hua ^g   Wang, Qingliang ^h  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF DISASTER PREVENTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 70349767048     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo636     Document Type: Article

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