Stress interactions within the strong earthquake sequence from 2001 to 2010 in the Bayankala block of eastern Tibet

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2157-2164

  Jia, Ke ^a   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Wang, Rui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; DECLUSTERING; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EPIDEMIC-TYPE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; EURASIAN PLATES; SEISMIC SIGNALS; SICHUAN; STRESS INTERACTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRIGGERING EFFECT; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; XINJIANG;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAILURE MECHANISM; KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE 2001; SEISMICITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRONG MOTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VISCOELASTICITY; YUSHU EARTHQUAKE 2010;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN; XINJIANG UYGUR; YUSHU; YUTIAN;

EID: 84867049670     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110333     Document Type: Article

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