Static Coulomb stress changes on faults caused by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 105-118

  Wan, Yongge ^a   Shen, Zheng Kang ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF DISASTER PREVENTION   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress change; Fault interactions; Seismic hazard potential; The Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ANNINGHE FAULT; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; DRIVING SOURCE; EAST KUNLUN; FAULT INTERACTIONS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; KNOW-HOW; NORMAL STRESS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STATIC COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; TECTONIC LOADING; TEST SENSITIVITY; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

FRICTION; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOTECTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SLIP; STRESS CHANGE; STRESS FIELD;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77955429099     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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