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Several strong earthquakes occurred in the regions of Batang and Xiaojin of Sichuan Province in 1989. This paper uses broadband waveform data from GDSN, by the forward trial-and-error modeling for multiple subevent, in terms of analysis on quasi-source time function or qSTF of station, to study source rupture characteristics of these strong earthquakes and to discuss tectonic background of earthquake occurrence regions preliminarily.
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This research is sponsored by Joint Seismological Science Foundation of China (196088).
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Gao, Y., Wu, ZL. & Zhou, HL. Seismic source ruptures of several strong earthquakes of 1989 in Sichuan region of China. Acta Seimol. Sin. 11, 13–19 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650451
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