Synthetic normal faulting of the 9 January 2008 Nima (Tibet) earthquake from conventional and along-track SAR interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Sun, Jianbao ^a   Shen, Zhengkang ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TECTONICS;

CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; DEFORMATION PATTERNS; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL MECHANISMS; FRINGE PATTERNS; INSAR DATUM; INTERNAL DEFORMATIONS; INVERSION RESULTS; LINE OF SIGHTS; MAINSHOCK; SAR INTERFEROMETRIES; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENTS; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATIONS;

DEFORMATION;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 60149099691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035691     Document Type: Article

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