Slip on faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by InSAR

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wei, Meng ^a   Sandwell, David ^a   Fialko, Yuri ^a   Bilham, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LANDFORMS;

DISLOCATION MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; INSAR DATA; MAIN SHOCK; MULTIPLE FAULTS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SURFACE SLIPS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA SET; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FIELD METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SLIP;

CALIFORNIA; IMPERIAL VALLEY; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS; FOUQUIERIA SPLENDENS;

EID: 78751543130     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045235     Document Type: Article

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