InSAR analysis of a blind thrust rupture and related active folding: The 1999 Ain Temouchent earthquake (Mw 5.7, Algeria) case study

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-432

  Belabbès, Samir ^a   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^a,d   Çakir, Ziyadin ^b   Bouhadad, Youcef ^c  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Centre National de Recherche Appliquee en Genie Parasismique   (Algeria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Active folding; Algeria; Earthquake; InSAR; Thrust fault

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; FOLDING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRUST FAULT;

AFRICA; AIN TEMOUCHENT; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 68349084531     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-008-9135-x     Document Type: Article

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