shows a map of the aftershocks of the May 12 main shock. If you compare Figure 4 and the aftershock map, you can see that the aftershocks of the May 12 earthquake are located very close to the part of the fault that slipped in the main shock. This is the usual behavior of most eart...
Well, this is an area that has activeseismicity, there is a large basin to the east of this earthquake, it's the Sichuan Basin and the basin is a fault controlled basin. The faults are along the northwest and western side of the basin, and we think that this earthquake occurred on the...