The 1998 Mw 5.7 Zhangbei-Shangyi (China) earthquake revisited: A buried thrust fault revealed with interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Li, Zhenhong ^a,b   Feng, Wanpeng ^c   Xu, Zhonghuai ^c   Cross, Paul ^a   Zhang, Jingfa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aftershock; Earthquake; InSAR; Zhangbei

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749084016     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001910     Document Type: Article

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