The 2008 Yutian normal faulting earthquake (Mw 7.1), NW Tibet: Non-planar fault modeling and implications for the Karakax Fault

Tectonophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 125-133

  Furuya, Masato ^a   Yasuda, Takatoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Karakax Fault; Non planar fault; Normal faulting earthquake; Northwest Tibet; Synthetic aperture radar; Triangular dislocation element

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DATA SETS; EPICENTRAL AREA; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT MODEL; FAULT MODELING; FAULT SCARP; FAULT SYSTEM; GEOLOGICAL TIME; KARAKAX FAULT; NON-PLANAR FAULT; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTHWEST TIBET; SLIP BEHAVIOR; SLIP RATES; SOURCE MODELS; SOUTHERN TIBET; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS; TARIM BASIN; TRIANGULAR DISLOCATION ELEMENT;

EARTHQUAKES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AFTERSHOCK; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; GEOLOGICAL TIME; NORMAL FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR; XIZANG; YUTIAN;

EID: 82655162034     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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