Slip rates and seismic moment deficits on major active faults in mainland China
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Slip rates and seismic moment deficits on major active faults in mainland China
[1] The Chinese mainland features widespread active faults and intensive seismic activity; both can be described in terms of slip rates on these faults. Previous studies of fault slip rates in mainland China have focused on individual faults or fault segments, and large discrepancies exist among results derived from different methods. Here we derive a self‐consistent estimate of the slip rates ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2010jb007821