Slip distribution from the 1 April 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake: A unique image of near-trench rupture

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Ting ^a,b   Newman, Andrew V ^a   Feng, Lujia ^a   Fritz, Hermann M ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SURVEYS;

COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DATA SETS; ELASTIC DISLOCATION; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SLIP ZONES; VERTICAL DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SLIP; THRUST;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 71949106749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039496     Document Type: Article

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