Stress changes on major faults caused by 2013 Lushan earthquake and its relationship with 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1169-1176

  Shan, Bin ^a   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Zheng, Yong ^a   Jin, BiKai ^a,b   Liu, ChengLi ^a,b   Xie, ZhuJun ^a,b   Hsu, HouTze ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress; Longmenshan Fault Zone; Lushan earthquake; seismic hazard; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HAZARDS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; ELASTIC DISLOCATION THEORY; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STRESS ACCUMULATION; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

FAULTING;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS CHANGE;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84880778544     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4642-1     Document Type: Article

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