Fault location and slip distribution of the 22 February 2011 MW 6.2 Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake from geodetic data

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 789-799

  Beavan, John ^a   Fielding, Eric ^b   Motagh, Mahdi ^c,d   Samsonov, Sergey ^e,f   Donnelly, Nic ^g  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^e European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology and The Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^f CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^g Land Information New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC DATUM;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CHRISTCHURCH [CANTERBURY]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 80054746676     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.789     Document Type: Article

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