The 2006 March 25 Fin earthquakes (Iran) - insights into the vertical extents of faulting in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1275-1291

  Roustaei, M ^a,b   Nissen, E ^c   Abbassi, M ^a   Gholamzadeh, A ^a   Ghorashi, M ^b   Tatar, M ^a   Yamini Fard, F ^a   Bergman, E ^d   Jackson, J ^c   Parsons, B ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: compressional; Earthquake source observations; Radar interferometry; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ANTICLINE; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; FOLD BELT; INTERFEROMETRY; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SYNCLINE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

IRAN;

EID: 77954075580     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04601.x     Document Type: Article

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