Characteristics, Geometry, and Segmentation of the Surface Rupture Associated with the 14 April 2010 Yushu earthquake, Eastern Tibet, China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1618-1638

  Li, Chuan you ^a,b   Pang, Jian zhang ^a   Zhang, Zhu qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; MAINSHOCK; MAXIMUM SLIP; SEISMIC INVERSION; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE RUPTURES; TIBET PLATEAU; TWO SECTION;

FAULTING; LAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; YUSHU EARTHQUAKE 2010;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84865020579     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110261     Document Type: Article

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