Possibility of the independence between the 2013 Lushan earthquake and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on Longmen Shan fault, Sichuan, China

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-67

  Jia, Ke ^a   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Zhuang, Jiancang ^b   Jiang, Changsheng ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; LUSHAN [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN;

EID: 84893744147     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220130115     Document Type: Article

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