Surface deformation associated with the Mw 6.4, 24 February 2004 Al Hoceima, Morocco, earthquake deduced from InSAR: Implications for the active tectonics along North Africa

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-68

  Cakir, Ziyadin ^a   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^a   Akoglu, Ahmet M ^b   Jabour, Nasser ^c   Belabbes, Samir ^a   Ait Brahim, Lahsen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH   (Morocco)

^d MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE TECTONICS; COSEISMIC DISPLACEMENT FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SURFACE DEFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (INSAR);

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NEOTECTONICS;

AFRICA; AL HOCEIMA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33644536083     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050108     Document Type: Article

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