Seismic structure of the Longmen Shan region from S-wave tomography and its relationship with the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake on 12 May 2008, southwestern China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Yi ^a   Li, Zhiwei ^a   Huang, Runqiu ^b   Xu, Ya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; HIGH VELOCITY; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SICHUAN BASIN;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 77955469297     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041835     Document Type: Article

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