Investigation of local earthquakes in the Lhasa region

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3020-3026

  Jin, Ge ^a   Chen, Yong Shun ^a   Basang, Ci Ren ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Tibet   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake activity; Earthquake cluster; Earthquake relocation; Lhasa block; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELEVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGMA; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

CHINA; LHASA; XIZANG;

EID: 77958482124     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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