Space geodetic investigation of the coseismic and postseismic deformation due to the 2003 Mw7.2 Altai earthquake: Implications for the local lithospheric rheology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Barbot, Sylvain ^a   Hamiel, Yariv ^a,b   Fialko, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CHUYA EARTHQUAKE 2003; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEODETIC DATUM; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC ZONE; SPOT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; CHUYA ALPS; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 44449123590     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005063     Document Type: Article

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