Strong aftershocks in the northern segment of the Wenchuan earthquake rupture zone and their seismotectonic implications

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 881-886

  Zheng, Yong ^a,e   Ni, Sidao ^b   Xie, Zujun ^a   Lv, Jian ^c   Ma, Hongsheng ^d   Sommerville, Paul ^f  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Earthquake Administration of Jiangxi Province   (China)

^d Institute of Earthquake Science   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^f URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftershock; Cut and paste method; Focal depth; Seismicity segmentation; Source mechanism

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952591347     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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