Geodynamic background of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake based on 3D visco-elastic numerical modelling

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 252, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-36

  Liu, Chang ^a,b,c   Zhu, Bojing ^d   Yang, Xiaolin ^e   Shi, Yaolin ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Earthquake Administration of Shaanxi Province   (China)

Author keywords

Longmen Shan fault; Lushan earthquake; Stress concentration; Viscosity contrast; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VISCOSITY;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; 3-D FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STRESS ACCUMULATION PROCESS; VISCOSITY CONTRAST; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOACCUMULATION; GEODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN BASIN; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84961291735     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2016.01.003     Document Type: Article

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