Interaction between historical earthquakes and the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo event and their impacts on the seismic gap areas along the East Kunlun fault

Abstract On May 21, 2021 (UTC time), an Mw7.4 earthquake struck Maduo County, Qinghai Province, China. The rupture of this typical strike-slip event and its aftershocks along the Kunlun-Jiangcuo fault (JCF) propagated approximately 170 km from the epicenter. In this study, we calculated the coseismi...

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Main Authors: Peiyu Dong, Bin Zhao, Xuejun Qiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-03-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-022-01589-3