Remotely triggered seismicity in Yunnan, southwestern China, following the 2004 Mw9.3 Sumatra earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Lei, Xinglin ^a,b   Xie, Chaodi ^c   Fu, Bihong ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 80051623067     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008245     Document Type: Article

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