Rupture process of the Wenchuan M8.0 earthquake of Sichuan China: The segmentation feature

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-292

  Zhao, CuiPing ^a   Chen, ZhangLi ^a   Zhou, LianQing ^a   Li, ZhiXiong ^a   Kang, Yin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Fault segmentation characteristics; Moment tensor solution; Rupture process; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949273419     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0425-7     Document Type: Article

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