Inescapable slow slip on the Altyn Tagh fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Wallace, Kali ^a   Yin, Guanghua ^b   Bilham, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

ELASTIC DISLOCATIONS; GEODETIC DATA;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; GPS;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 3543048964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019724     Document Type: Article

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