Comparison of fault models of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Ms8.0) and spatial distributions of co-seismic deformations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 85-95

  Wang, Wuxing ^a,b   Sun, Wenke ^b,c   Jiang, Zaisen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2008 Wenchuan earthquake; Co seismic deformation; Earth model; Fault model; Slip distribution

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTH MODELS; FAULT MODEL; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

COMPUTER CRIME; EARTH (PLANET); EARTHQUAKES; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEFORMATION;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISLOCATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; GEOID; GPS; HALF SPACE; SEISMIC WAVE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 77955427308     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.035     Document Type: Article

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