Shallow intraplate earthquakes in Western Australia observed by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Dawson, John ^a,b   Cummins, Phil ^a   Tregoning, Paul ^b   Leonard, Mark ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58549086001     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005807     Document Type: Article

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