Coseismic fault slip of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake estimated from InSAR and GPS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Feng, Guangcai ^a   Hetland, Eric A ^b   Ding, Xiaoli ^a   Li, Zhiwei ^c   Zhang, Lei ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; FAULT MODEL; FAULT SLIP; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATION; MAXIMUM THRUST; PLANAR FAULT; PLANAR SEGMENTS; SEISMIC FAULTS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALOS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; GPS; IONOSPHERE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRUST FAULT;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 75749157714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041213     Document Type: Article

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