Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

The disastrous 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China took the local population as well as scientists by surprise. Although the Longmen Shan fault zone—which includes the fault segments along which this earthquake nucleated—was well known, geologic and geodetic data indicate relatively low (

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature geoscience 2009-10, Vol.2 (10), p.718-724
Hauptverfasser: Shen, Zheng-Kang, Sun, Jianbao, Zhang, Peizhen, Wan, Yongge, Wang, Min, Bürgmann, Roland, Zeng, Yuehua, Gan, Weijun, Liao, Hua, Wang, Qingliang
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earth System Sciences
Earthquakes
Fault lines
Geochemistry
Geology
Geophysics/Geodesy
Global positioning systems
GPS
Local population
Seismic activity
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Zusammenfassung:The disastrous 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China took the local population as well as scientists by surprise. Although the Longmen Shan fault zone—which includes the fault segments along which this earthquake nucleated—was well known, geologic and geodetic data indicate relatively low (
ISSN:1752-0894
1752-0908
DOI:10.1038/ngeo636