A shallow aftershock sequence in the north-eastern end of the Wenchuan earthquake aftershock zone

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1655-1664

  Luo, Yan ^a,b   Ni, SiDao ^a   Zeng, XiangFang ^a   Zheng, Yong ^c   Chen, QiFu ^b   Chen, Yong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Focal depth; Shallow earthquake; Wave modeling; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOCAL DEPTH; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES; WAVE MODELING; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84904730188     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-4026-8     Document Type: Article

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