The Evolution of Stress and Strain around the Bayan Har Block in the Tibetan Plateau

Figure 4

The F2 and F5 faults are under the yield state, the distribution of velocity (a), strain rate (b), and cumulative stress (c) for case 3. Mechanism of earthquakes (d) comes from Harvard CMT catalogue (Mw > 4.0, 1976–2011) (http://www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.html). Red and blue lines indicate the tension and pressure axes from the mechanism of earthquake, respectively.

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