Stress build-up in the shallow crust before the Lushan Earthquake based on the in-situ stress measurements

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-114

  Wang, Cheng Hu ^a   Song, Cheng Ke ^b   Guo, Qi Liang ^a   Zhang, Yan Shan ^a   Ding, Jian Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b First Crust Monitoring and Application Center   (China)

Author keywords

Critical frictional equilibrium; Frictional coefficient; In situ stress; Lushan Earthquake; Stress build up

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; STICTION; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRESSES;

DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; FRICTIONAL COEFFICIENTS; IN-SITU STRESS MEASUREMENT; INSITU STRESS; MAXIMUM HORIZONTAL PRINCIPAL STRESS; STATIC FRICTION COEFFICIENT; STRESS BUILD-UPS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOREHOLE; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; FRICTION; IN SITU STRESS; LUSHAN EARTHQUAKE 2013; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS MEASUREMENT; UPPER CRUST;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84896287763     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: 08989591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6038/cjg20140110     Document Type: Article

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