Fault source modeling of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake based on ALOS/PALSAR data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2750-2766

  Furuya, M ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a,b   Takada, Y ^a   Murakami, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; CONJUGATE FAULTS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DATA SETS; DIP ANGLE; FAULT ZONE; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; MAXIMUM SLIP; MULTIPLE FAULTS; PATCH SIZE; RANGE OFFSET; SOURCE MODELING; SOURCE MODELS; THRUST SLIP; VARIABLE SLIP; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FAULT GEOMETRY; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 78149482908     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090242     Document Type: Article

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