Five short historical earthquake surface ruptures near the Silk Road, Gansu Province, China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 541-561

  Xu, Xiwei ^a   Yeats, Robert S ^b   Yu, Guihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; COSEISMIC SLIPS; DISPLACEMENT STATISTIC; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GANSU PROVINCE; HEXI CORRIDOR; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NORMAL COMPONENT; REVERSE FAULTING; REVERSE FAULTS; RUPTURE DATA; RUPTURE LENGTH; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SURFACE RUPTURES; THRUST FAULTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC ZONE;

CHINA; GANSU;

EID: 77950352216     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080282     Document Type: Article

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