Temporal and spatial variation of stress field in Taiwan from 1991 to 2007: Insights from comprehensive first motion focal mechanism catalog

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 306-316

  Wu, Yih Min ^a   Hsu, Ya Ju ^b   Chang, Chien Hsin ^c   Teng, Louis Suh yui ^a   Nakamura, Mamoru ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Earthquake; Focal mechanism; Stress

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CENTRAL RANGES; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DATA SETS; DEPTH RANGE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LATERAL MOTION; LITHOSPHERE RHEOLOGIES; MAINSHOCK; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTIONS; RUPTURE AREAS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRESS AXES; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS DROP; STRESS FIELD; STRESS RATIO; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; DEFORMATION; FOCUSING; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROTATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

LONGITUDINAL VALLEY; TAIWAN;

EID: 77957299684     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.047     Document Type: Article

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