Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 1999 M 7.4 İzmit earthquake from GPS measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1220-1237

  Wang, L ^a,b   Wang, R ^a   Roth, F ^a   Enescu, B ^c   Hainzl, S ^a   Ergintav, S ^d  

^a Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum ^*  (Germany)

^b CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Elasticity and anelasticity; Seismic cycle; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

ANELASTICITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GPS; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 69149102969     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04228.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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