A midcrustal ramp-fault structure beneath the Taiwan tectonic wedge illuminated by the 2013 Nantou earthquake series

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5080-5084

  Chuang, Ray Y ^a   Johnson, Kaj M ^a   Wu, Yih Min ^b   Ching, Kuo En ^c   Kuo, Long Chen ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

2013 Nantou earthquake; detachment; Taiwan; western foothills

Indexed keywords

CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; COSEISMIC SLIP DISTRIBUTION; DETACHMENT; DETACHMENT SURFACES; EARTHQUAKE SERIES; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; TAIWAN; WESTERN FOOTHILLS;

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULTING;

AFTERSHOCK; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DETACHMENT FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT PLANE; LOWER CRUST; OROGENY; REVERSE FAULT; SLIP; TECTONIC WEDGE;

NANTOU; TAIWAN;

EID: 84884998195     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.51005     Document Type: Article

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