The co-seismic Coulomb stress change and expected seismicity rate caused by 14 April 2010 Ms=7.1 Yushu, China, earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 345-353

  Shan, Bin ^a,b   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Zheng, Yong ^a   Wei, Shengji ^c   Wen, Yangmao ^d   Jin, Bikai ^a,b   Ge, Can ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress; Earthquake stress triggering; Seismic hazard; Yushu earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; COULOMB STRESS; ELASTIC DISLOCATION THEORY; FRICTION LAWS; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; MAINSHOCK; MULTI-LAYERED; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; QINGHAI PROVINCE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STATIC STRESS; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; STRESS CHANGES; STUDY AREAS; SURROUNDING REGIONS;

FRICTION; PROBABILITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; YUSHU EARTHQUAKE 2010;

CHINA; QINGHAI; YUSHU;

EID: 80053269917     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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