Rupture history of the 2013 Mw 6.6 Lushan earthquake constrained with local strong motion and teleseismic body and surface waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5371-5376

  Hao, Jinlai ^a   Ji, Chen ^b   Wang, Weimin ^a   Yao, Zhenxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

low stress drop; Lushan earthquake; slip history

Indexed keywords

APPARENT STRESS; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; LOW STRESS; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRONG MOTION; THRUST FAULTS; TRIANGULAR SHAPES;

DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; LOSSES; SURFACE WAVES;

FAULTING;

ASPERITY; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LUSHAN EARTHQUAKE 2013; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THRUST FAULT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; JIANGXI; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; LUSHAN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

EID: 84885544602     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL056876     Document Type: Article

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