Coseismic displacement, bilateral rupture, and structural characteristics at the southern end of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake rupture, central Taiwan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Yuan Hsi ^a   Shih, Yi Xiu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PLIOCENE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79960551120     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007760     Document Type: Article

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