Stress triggering of the 2022 Lushan–Maerkang earthquake sequence by historical events and its implication for fault stress evolution in eastern Tibet

It remains unknown how stress triggering causes earthquakes in the eastern Tibetan Plateau following the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008. The MS 6.1 Lushan earthquake on 1 June 2022 in a seismic gap between the 2008 MW 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake and the 2013 MW 6.6 Lushan earthquake provided an opportunity...

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Main Authors: Dawei Tang, Weipeng Ge, Xiyu Cao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1105394/full