Seismological and tectonic setting of th
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Lew, Marshall ;Naeim, Farzad ;Huang, Sampson C. ;Lam, Howard K. ;Carpenter, Laur
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The 21 September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake struck the island nation of Taiwan with a severe intensity on a fault that was not believed to be very active. The earthquake rupture was a shallow focus event within the island on a thrust fault. This is atypical of most earthquakes in the area, which are ce