supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41074070, 41174035);the SinoProbe Program (Grant No. SinoProbe-08-01)
The rupture dimensions of earthquake faults are important parameters for characterizing earthquake ruptures and ground motions. Two key parameters to be determined are the rupture depth and dip angle of earthquake fau...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.41074052,41204067,41174086 and 41021003);Special Project Seismic Commonwealth Research (Grant No.201308013);Key Development Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.KZZD-EW-TZ-05)
On April 20, 2013, an Ms7.0 earthquake occurred in Ya'an-Lushan region, Sichuan Province, China, killing and injuring morethan one thousand people. Therefore, it is critical to outline the areas with potential aftersh...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos.2006CB202401,2011CB201001);National Major Projects of Gas and Oil (Grant No. 2008ZX05014-002)
A typical ancient karst cave is found in the Yijianfang Formation of Ordovician at Liuhuanggou,North Tarim Basin.With an entrance of 4.8 m wide and 20 m high,the Liuhuanggou ancient karst cave extends to NW 315° and ...
the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB418405);National Key Technologies R&D Program (Grant No. 2006BAC01B03)
Studying the effect of geometrically irregular bodies on the mechanical behavior of fault activity is of significance in understanding the seismic activity along a fault zone. By using rock mechanics ex- periment with...
the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB418403);the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40334042);the China Earthquake Administration Research Fund (Grant No. 200708002)
A linked-fault-element model is employed to invert for contemporary slip rates along major active faults in the Sichuan-Yunnan region (96°-108°E, 21°-35°N) using the least squares method. The model is based on kno...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 49972069), State Key Lab of Southwestern Petroleum Institute and Geomechanics Institute, CAGS.
The authors select different grain size samples from granitic body in Weishan, central Hunan, to conduct mylonitization experiments under high temperature (HT) and high pressure (HP), by which the temperature and pres...