Co-seismic strike-slip surface rupture and displacement produced by the 2010 MW 6.9 Yushu earthquake, China, and implications for Tibetan tectonics

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 249-259

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

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2010 MW 6.9 Yushu earthquake; Co seismic surface rupture; Ganzi Yushu Fault Zone; Strike slip; Tibetan Plateau; Yushu Fault

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; INDIAN PLATE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YUSHU;

EID: 79960621758     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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