Mechanical constraints on inversion of coseismic geodetic data for fault slip and geometry: Example from InSAR observation of the 6 October 2008 M w 6.3 Dangxiong-Yangyi (Tibet) earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Jianbao ^a   Johnson, Kaj M ^b   Cao, Zhongquan ^c   Shen, Zhengkang ^a,d   Bürgmann, Roland ^e   Xu, Xiwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Xizang Seismology Bureau   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SMOOTHING; STRESS FIELD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; DAMXUNG; XIZANG;

EID: 79251638073     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007849     Document Type: Article

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