Late Holocene activity and historical earthquakes of the Qiongxi thrust fault system in the southern Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 102-113

  Wang, Maomao ^a   Jia, Dong ^a   Lin, Aiming ^b   Shen, Li ^a   Rao, Gang ^b   Li, Yiquan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eastern Tibetan Plateau; Historical earthquake; Longmen Shan; Qiongxi thrust fault system; Seismic reflection profile

Indexed keywords

EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; LONGMEN SHAN; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; THRUST FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HOLOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; THRUST FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872395270     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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