The 14 November 2001 Kokoxili (Kunlunshan), Tibet, Earthquake: Rupture transfer through a large extensional step-over

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1173-1194

  Antolik, Michael ^a   Abercrombie, Rachel E ^b   Ekström, Göran ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRACTURE ENERGY; SEISMOGRAPHIC NETWORKS; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SURFACE RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; P-WAVE; SH-WAVE; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; XIZANG;

EID: 7244231309     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003180     Document Type: Article

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