Effects of spatial distribution of fault slip on calculating co-seismic displacement: Case studies of the Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw7.6) and the Kunlun earthquake (Mw7.8)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Fu, Guangyu ^a   Sun, Wenke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

1206 Geodesy and Gravity: Crustal movements Interplate (8155); 1242 Geodesy and Gravity: Seismic deformations (7205); 1243 Geodesy and Gravity: Space geodetic surveys

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); EARTHQUAKES; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; DISLOCATION MODELS; FAULT SLIPS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY; FAULT SLIPS;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

CASE-STUDIES; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DISLOCATION MODELING; DISLOCATION MODELS; FAULT PLANES; SEISMIC MODEL;

EID: 13244264967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020841     Document Type: Article

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