Triggered slip on a back reverse fault in the Mw6.8 2013 Lushan, China earthquake revealed by joint inversion of local strong motion accelerograms and geodetic measurements

Tectonophysics

Volumn 672-673, Issue , 2016, Pages 24-33

  Zhang, Guohong ^a,b   Hetland, Eric A ^b   Shan, Xinjian ^a   Vallée, Martin ^c   Liu, Yunhua ^a   Zhang, Yingfeng ^a   Qu, Chunyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Back reverse fault; Geodetic measurements; Joint inversion; Local strong motion data; The 2013 Lushan earthquake; Triggered fault slip

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOPHYSICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; JOINT INVERSION; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; REVERSE FAULTS; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; STRONG MOTION DATUM; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCELEROMETER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; LUSHAN EARTHQUAKE 2013; REVERSE FAULT; STRONG MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84962427348     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.031     Document Type: Article

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