Subduction earthquake deformation associated with 14 November 2007, Mw 7.8 Tocopilla earthquake in Chile: Results from InSAR and aftershocks

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 60-68

  Motagh, Mahdi ^a,b   Schurr, Bernd ^a   Anderssohn, Jan ^a   Cailleau, Beatrice ^c   Walter, Thomas R ^a   Wang, Rongjiang ^a   Villotte, Jean Pierre ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Earthquake; SAR interferometry; Slip distribution; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; AFTERSHOCK LOCATION; COASTAL REGIONS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; COULOMB STRESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; ENVISAT; EXACT GEOMETRY; FAULT INTERACTIONS; FAULT SLIP; IMAGE MODES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; NORTHERN CHILE; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE PLANE; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC DATAS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE FAULT; SOUTH AMERICA; STRESS MODELS; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION THRUST; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WIDE SWATH;

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR IMAGING; SEISMOLOGY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AFTERSHOCK; COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; TOCOPILLA;

EID: 77954035527     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.033     Document Type: Article

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