Recurrent morphogenic earthquakes in the past millennium along the strike-slip yushu fault, central Tibetan Plateau

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2755-2764

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

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; EURASIAN PLATES; FAULT ZONE; FIELD SURVEYS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; INDIAN PLATE; MORPHOGENIC; PALEOSEISMIC EVIDENCE; RADIOCARBON AGE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMIC SLIPS; SLIP RATES; SURFACE RUPTURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WIDESPREAD DAMAGE; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; GPS; INDIAN PLATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YUSHU;

EID: 83255191720     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100274     Document Type: Article

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