Introduction to the special issue on the 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2353-2356

  Klinger, Y ^a   Ji, C ^b   Shen, Z K ^c,e   Bakun, W H ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78149488208     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100172     Document Type: Article

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