3-D coseismic displacement field of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake inferred from satellite radar imagery

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 343-349

  Wang, Hua ^a   Ge, Linlin ^b   Xu, Caijun ^a   Du, Zhixing ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3 D displacement; Kashmir earthquake; Offset; Slip distribution

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; ENVISAT-1; HALF SPACE; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34347325279     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352694     Document Type: Article

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