Three-dimensional seismic velocity structure across the 2008 Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake, Sichuan, China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 211-217

  Pei, Shunping ^a,c   Su, Jinrong ^b   Zhang, Haijiang ^c   Sun, Youshun ^c   Toksöz, M Nafi ^c   Wang, Zhi ^d   Gao, Xing ^a   Liu Zeng, Jing ^a   He, Jiankun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Double difference tomography; Seismic structure; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; EVENT LOCATION; FAULT PLANES; FAULT ZONE; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW VELOCITIES; P TRAVEL TIME; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SICHUAN , CHINA; SICHUAN BASIN; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SLIP MODEL; STRUCTURE CONTROL; STRUCTURE HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORARY NETWORKS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VELOCITY MODEL; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN; SONGPAN-GARZE FOLD BELT;

EID: 77955419453     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.039     Document Type: Article

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