A study on the influence of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on the stability of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau tectonic block system

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 94-103

  Chen, Zuan ^a,c   Lin, Banghui ^b   Bai, Wuming ^a   Cheng, Xu ^a   Wang, Yunsheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress; Movement and deformation of tectonic blocks; Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Rupture process; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; MOVEMENT AND DEFORMATION OF TECTONIC BLOCKS; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; RUPTURE PROCESS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; SYSTEM STABILITY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; FRACTURE ZONE; GPS; INDIAN PLATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUPTURE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80052742584     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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