Lushan MS7.0 earthquake: A blind reserve-fault event

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 28-29, 2013, Pages 3437-3443

  Xu, XiWei ^a   Wen, XueZe ^b   Han, ZhuJun ^a   Chen, GuiHua ^a   Li, ChuanYou ^a   Zheng, WenJun ^a   Zhnag, ShiMin ^c   Ren, ZhiQun ^a   Xu, Chong ^a   Tan, XiBin ^a   Wei, ZhanYu ^a   Wang, MingMing ^a   Ren, JunJie ^c   He, ZhongTai ^c   Liang, MingJian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Sichuan Earthquake Administration   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

blind reverse fault earthquake; earthquake surface rupture zone; Longmenshan thrust belt; Lushan earthquake; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880660879     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5999-4     Document Type: Article

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