An attempt to detect temporal variations of crustal structure in the source area of the 2006 Wen-An earthquake in North China

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 958-976

  Lei, Jianshe ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Xie, Furen ^a   Liu, Jie ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese Capital region; Earthquake mechanism; Later phase; Seismic tomography; Velocity variation; Wen An earthquake

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; P-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 79551537115     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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