The 2011 Yingjiang, China, earthquake: A volcano-related fluid-driven earthquake?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 417-425

  Lei, Jianshe ^a   Xie, Furen ^a   Mishra, O P ^b   Lu, Yuanzhong ^a   Zhang, Guangwei ^a   Li, Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Geological Disaster Division   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; EFFECTIVE NORMAL STRESS; FAULT PLANES; FAULT ZONE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIAN PLATE; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; SEISMOGENIC LAYERS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; TELESEISMIC; TOMOGRAPHIC;

STRESS CONCENTRATION; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; INDIAN PLATE; MAGMATISM; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPWELLING; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

CHINA; TENGCHONG; YINGJIANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 84863116399     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110143     Document Type: Article

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