The 12 may 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake: Macroseismic intensity assessment using the ems-98 and esi 2007 scales and their correlation with the geological structure

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2791-2804

  Lekkas, Efthymis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CAUSATIVE TECTONICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FIELD DATA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GEOTECHNICAL; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY SCALE; INTENSITY VALUES; LARGE-SCALE EVENT; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SEISMIC FAULTS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SICHUAN PROVINCE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

GEODYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 78149486857     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090244     Document Type: Article

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