Stress evolution before and after the 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 222-232

  Nalbant, Suleyman S ^a   McCloskey, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2008 Wenchuan earthquake; Coseismic and postseismic viscoelastic stress change modelling; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

CHENGDU; COSEISMIC AND POSTSEISMIC VISCOELASTIC STRESS CHANGE MODELLING; COULOMB STRESS; HIGH DENSITY; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS EVOLUTION; STRESS FIELD; STRESS LEVELS; STRONG INTERACTION; TIME DEPENDENT; VISCOELASTIC STRESS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRONG MOTION; VISCOELASTICITY;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 79957955362     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.039     Document Type: Article

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