Strain accumulation across the Gazikoy-Saros segment of the North Anatolian Fault inferred from Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and GPS measurements

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 432-444

  Motagh, Mahdi ^a   Hoffmann, Jörn ^b   Kampes, Bert ^b   Baes, Marzieh ^c   Zschau, Jochen ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

elastic half space; Ganos fault; inversion; Persistent Scatterer Interferometry; viscoelastic half space

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP ANALYSIS; GAZIKOY-SAROS SEGMENT; INTERSEISMIC CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY;

EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TURKEY;

TECTONICS;

ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DATA INVERSION; FAULT ZONE; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLIP RATE; STRAIN; VISCOELASTICITY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 33847415495     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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