Eyewitness accounts of surface thrusting and folding during the 2008 M w 7.9 wenchuan earthquake, China

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 884-891

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Ren, Zhikun ^a   Rao, Gang ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 78649823973     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.6.884     Document Type: Article

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