The spatial distribution pattern of landslides triggered by the 20 April 2013 Lushan earthquake of China and its implication to identification of the seismogenic fault

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1416-1424

  Xu, Chong ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Blind thrust fault; Implication; Landslides; Lushan earthquake; Spatial distribution pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897570559     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0202-0     Document Type: Article

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