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The Wenchuan earthquake produced surface ruptures with the most complicated structures and the greatest length as compared with the intra-plate reverse faulting earthquakes that have ever been reported so far (Xu et al., 2008a). The earthquake ruptured simultaneously both the NE-trending, NW-dipping Beichuan and Pengguan faults with right-slip component on the middle segment of the Longmenshan thrust belt, resulting in two sub-parallel imbricate surface rupture zones accompanied by a secondary NW-trending rupture zone linking the two major rupture zones at the southern end of the Pengguan fault through a lateral ramp
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Xing, H., Xu, X. (2011). Earthquake Surface Ruptures. In: M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01901-2_4
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