Probing the mechanical properties of seismically active crust with space geodesy: Study of the coseismic deformation due to the 1992 MW7.3 Landers (southern California) earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Fialko, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Earthquake; InSAR

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GPS; LANDERS EARTHQUAKE 1992; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CALIFORNIA; LANDERS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2542447378     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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