Study on visco-elastic stress triggering model of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake sequence

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 581-593

  Yongge, Wan ^a,b   Zhengkang, Shen ^c   Yuehua, Zeng ^d   Shuzhong, Sheng ^a   Xiaofeng, Xu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF DISASTER PREVENTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

1976 Tangshan earthquake; Stress direction; Stress triggering; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953827308     PISSN: 02533782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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