Coseismic Deformation from the 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake Derived from ALOS/PALSAR Images

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 59-71

  Hashimoto, Manabu ^a   Enomoto, Mari ^a   Fukushima, Yo ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Coseismic deformation; Fault model; Longmen Shan fault zone; SAR interferometry; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; FAULT MODEL; FAULT ZONE; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHENGDU; CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

EID: 77955424223     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.034     Document Type: Article

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