|
Journal: |
Tectonics by AGU 2020 No.
clicks:270 |
|
Title:
|
|
|
Author:
|
Huiping Zhang Eric Kirby Haibing Li Kristen Cook Peizhen Zhang |
|
Adress: |
State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China |
|
Abstract:
|
In 2008, the Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake killed > 80,000 and injured more than 370,000 people in the province of Sichuan, China. About five years later, Mw6.6 Lushan earthquake occurred on April 20, 2013, only ~90 km further south. More recently, in 2017, a third event, Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, occurred ~250 km north of the Wenchuan earthquake epicenter. These events were all along the Longmen Shan thrust belt in eastern Tibet. The questions posed by these events still reverberate in the Chinese and international geoscience communities. In this special section, we summarize and report new data sets, observations, and modeling results of the eastern Tibet during the last decade. It covers the tectonics of eastern Tibet, the seismology and the surface response of the earthquake. All these contributions will provide new insights into the geodynamics of the eastern Tibet. We further highlight a number of outstanding questions that remain to be addressed. |
|
Comment: |
|
|
|
|
