Seismic moment release before the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan of southwest China

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1784-1795

  Jiang, Changsheng ^a   Wu, Zhongliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

'Eclipse method'; AMR; BIC; Quiescence; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FORECASTING;

'ECLIPSE METHOD; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUES; PREPARATION PROCESS; QUIESCENCE; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SEISMICALLY ACTIVE FAULTS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 77955478562     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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