Interseismic deformation and earthquake hazard along the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault, Eastern Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1569-1582

  Chuang, Ray Y ^a,g   Meghan Miller, M ^a   Chen, Yue Gau ^b   Chen, Horng Yue ^c   Shyu, J Bruce H ^d   Yu, Shui Beih ^c   Rubin, Charles M ^e   Sieh, Kerry ^f   Chung, Ling Ho ^b  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK MODELS; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FAULT-SLIP RATES; NEAR-SURFACE; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; SHALLOW FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULT SLIPS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE;

LONGITUDINAL VALLEY; TAIWAN;

EID: 84865046961     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110262     Document Type: Article

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