Combining InSAR and seismology to study the 2003 Siberian Altai earthquakes - Dextral strike-slip and anticlockwise rotations in the northern India-Eurasia collision zone

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 216-232

  Nissen, Edwin ^a   Emmerson, Brian ^b   Funning, Gareth J ^a,e   Mistrukov, Anatoly ^c   Parsons, Barry ^a   Robinson, David P ^a   Rogozhin, Eugene ^d   Wright, Tim J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^e Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Altai; Earthquake source parameters; Faulting; InSAR; Seismology

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; FAULT ZONE; PALEOMAGNETISM; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 34147110956     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03286.x     Document Type: Article

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