Coupled afterslip and viscoelastic flow following the 2002 Denali Fault, Alaska earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 670-682

  Johnson, Kaj M ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Friction; Rheology and friction of fault zones; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Satellite geodesy; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; GEODESY; GPS; RHEOLOGY; SLIP; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61349137001     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04029.x     Document Type: Article

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