Effect of the Zipingpu reservoir impoundment on the occurrence of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and local seismicity

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Gahalaut, Kalpna ^a   Gahalaut, V K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake dynamics; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BOUSSINESQ; COULOMB STRESS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EASTERN EDGE; EPICENTRE; FAULT PLANES; HYPOCENTRE; PRESSURE DIFFUSION; RESERVOIR OPERATION; RESERVOIR WATER; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SHALLOW SEISMICITY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VARIATION OF WATER LEVEL; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKES; PORE PRESSURE; TECTONICS; WATER LEVELS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; IMPOUNDMENT; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMICITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78349260523     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04715.x     Document Type: Article

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