Yingxiu

The earthquake occurred in the north–south seismic belt of mainland China, along the Longmen Mountain fault zone which marks the boundary between the Longmen Mountains east of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the Sichuan Basin. The epicentre was located at 31.0 N and 103.4 E, approximately 3 km southwest of Yingxiu Town in Wenchuan County.

2009, Bin Zhao, Fabio Taucer, Tiziana Rossetto, “Field investigation on the performance of building structures during the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China”, in Engineering Structures, volume 31, number 8, →DOI, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024, pages 1707–1723

To reveal paleoseismic behaviors in this region, we conducted a paleoseismic study along the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake fault scarp at the town of Yingxiu along the Beichuan–Yingxiu fault.

2013 January 22, Yong-Kang Ran, Wen-Shan Chen, Xi-Wei Xu, Li-Chun Chen, Hu Wang, Chih-Cheng Yang, Shao-Peng Dong, “Paleoseismic events and recurrence interval along the Beichuan–Yingxiu fault of Longmenshan fault zone, Yingxiu, Sichuan, China”, in Tectonophysics, volume 584, →DOI, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2022, page 81 of 81–90