Balance of seismic moment in the Songpan-Ganze region, eastern Tibet: Implications for the 2008 Great Wenchuan earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 154-164

  Wang, Hui ^a,b   Liu, Mian ^b   Shen, Xuhui ^a   Liu, Jie ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Great Wenchuan earthquake; Seismic hazard; Seismic moment; Slip rate; Songpan Ganze region

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; FAULT ZONE; GPS DATA; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; KUNLUN FAULT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SCALE BLOCKS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP RATES; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SLIP RATE;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN; SONGPAN-GARZE FOLD BELT; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 77955420469     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.09.022     Document Type: Article

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