Oblique slip on the Puysegur subduction interface in the 2009 July MW 7.8 Dusky Sound earthquake from GPS and InSAR observations: Implications for the tectonics of southwestern New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1265-1286

  Beavan, J ^a   Samsonov, S ^a   Denys, P ^b   Sutherland, R ^a   Palmer, N ^a   Denham, M ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; New Zealand; Radar interferometry; Space geodetic surveys; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; NEW ZEALAND; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPACE GEODETIC SURVEYS; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SURVEYS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GPS; OBLIQUE FAULT; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 78449264141     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04798.x     Document Type: Article

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