Stick-slip nucleation triggering of Wenchuan earthquake

The MS8.0 Wenchuan earthquake occurred on May 12th, 2008 on the steeply reverse fault of the Longmen Shan fault zone, Western China. Catastrophic failure and rupture occurred along the listric sliding surface. Several numerical simulations have been performed to reconfigure the dynamic processes of...

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Main Authors: Shuangxi Zhang, Lingxi Liu, Menkui Li, Yu Zhang, Jie Tang, Xuchong Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-01-01
Series:Geodesy and Geodynamics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674984720300835