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China, Lincang: 1970-2023

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The Lincang cluster is named for the city of Lincang in Yunnan Province, southern China. Most events are near the border with Myanmar. The cluster includes the 7.3 Ms Lancang-Gengma earthquake on November 6, 1988 and its larger aftershocks, as well as M6 events on February 6, 1970 and May 31, 1976. Earthquake location in this remote area is quite difficult due to the scarcity of seismograph stations in the region. Location calibration is possible only because of the availability of an extensive dataset of arrival times collected by Sun Ruomei from the Chinese provincial seismograph networks starting in the late 1960s. All events have depth control from near-source, local-distance or teleseismic depth phase readings. Most events are [...]

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