Rupture process of the Ms7.0 Lushan earthquake, 2013

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1187-1192

  Liu, ChengLi ^a,b   Zheng, Yong ^a   Ge, Can ^a,b   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Hsu, HouTze ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

finite fault model; Longmenshan fault system; Lushan earthquake; rupture process

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

ACCUMULATED STRAIN; AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS; FINITE FAULT INVERSIONS; FINITE FAULT MODELING; LONGMENSHAN FAULTS; RUPTURE PROCESS; TELESEISMIC WAVEFORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LANDSLIDE; SEISMIC ZONE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THRUST FAULT;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

EID: 84880765820     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4639-9     Document Type: Article

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