Crustal and upper mantle structure and the deep seismogenic environment in the source regions of the Lushan earthquake and the Wenchuan earthquake

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1158-1168

  Zheng, Yong ^a   Ge, Can ^a,b   Xie, ZuJun ^a,b   Yang, YingJie ^c   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Hsu, HouTze ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ambient noise tomography; deep seismogenic environment; Lushan earthquake; receiver function; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; POISSON RATIO; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIES; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; RECEIVER FUNCTION METHOD; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMOGENIC ENVIRONMENT; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

FAULTING;

AFTERSHOCK; AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRONG MOTION; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84880773181     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4641-2     Document Type: Article

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