Source characteristics of the Yutian earthquake in 2008 from inversion of the co-seismic deformation field mapped by InSAR

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 935-942

  Shan, Xinjian ^a   Zhang, Guohong ^a   Wang, Chisheng ^a,b   Qu, Chunyan ^a   Song, Xiaogang ^a   Zhang, Guifang ^a   Guo, Liming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Co seismic deformation field; D InSAR; Fault slip distribution; High resolution image; Yutian earthquake

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR; YUTIAN;

EID: 79551526793     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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