The role of late quaternary upper-crustal faults in the 12 may 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2700-2712

  Densmore, Alexander L ^a   Li, Yong ^b   Richardson, Nicholas J ^c   Zhou, Rongjun ^d   Ellis, Michael ^e   Zhang, Yi ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF SICHUAN PROVINCE   (China)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; FAULT NETWORKS; GEOLOGICAL FAULT; HOLOCENES; IN-BUILDINGS; LATE QUATERNARY; PARTIAL REACTIVATION; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; SURFACE RUPTURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULTING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; KINEMATICS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78149480042     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090294     Document Type: Article

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