Co-seismic Riedel shear structures produced by the 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake, central Tibetan Plateau, China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 86-94

  Rao, Gang ^a   Lin, Aiming ^a   Yan, Bing ^b   Jia, Dong ^b   Wu, Xiaojun ^b   Ren, Zhikun ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake; Co seismic surface rupture; Mole track structure; Riedel shear; Strike slip fault; Tension crack

Indexed keywords

2010 MW 6.9 YUSHU EARTHQUAKE; CO-SEISMIC SURFACE RUPTURE; RIEDEL SHEAR; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TENSION CRACKS; TRACK STRUCTURE;

CRACKS; FRACTURE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPRESSION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRACK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC ZONE; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79959697494     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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