China 12 May 2008 Earthquake

Eastern Sichuan

A strong earthquake of magnitude Mw=7.9 occurred in eastern Sichuan region
of China on 12 May 2008 (06:27 GMT). The focal mechanism solution showed
thrust type faulting. The ruptured fault has a SW-NE direction.

Thousands of people killed because of the earthquake.

The teleseismic Stations whose data were used in the inversion
and the focal mechanism of the earthquake

Teleseismic Modeling of P and SH waves for slip

Source Parameters determination using teleseismic recordings

Slip Distribution

Synthetic PGV map + EMSC seismicity

The earthquake modeled by Agalos A. email: aagalos@geol.uoa.gr

Earthquake modeled by Moshou Alexandra email: amoshou@geol.uoa.gr

References
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Moshou A., Papadimitriou P., Makropoulos K., 2008. Waveform Inversion using Teleseismic and
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