Interseismic deformation and earthquake hazard along the southernmost longitudinal valley fault, eastern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chuang, Ray Y., Shyu, J. Bruce H., Rubin, Charles M., Miller, M. Meghan, Chen, Yue-Gau, Chen, Horng-Yue, Yu, Shui-Beih, Sieh, Kerry, Chung, Ling-Ho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101231; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11145
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

About half of the 8 cm/yr of oblique convergence across the active convergent plate boundaries of Taiwan occurs in eastern Taiwan, across the Longitudinal Valley. Significant shortening and left‐lateral slip occurs across the Longitudinal Valley fault there, both as shallow fault creep and as seism...