Characteristic slip for five great earthquakes along the Fuyun fault in China

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 389-392

  Klinger, Y ^a   Etchebes, M ^a   Tapponnier, P ^b   Narteau, C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 79957842026     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1158     Document Type: Article

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