Tectonic deformation in western Washington from continuous GPS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3153-3156

  Khazaradze, Giorgi ^a   Qamar, Anthony ^a   Dragert, Herb ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

ELASTIC STRAIN; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DEFORMATION; GPS; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033569070     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010458     Document Type: Article

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