InSAR and optical constraints on fault slip during the 2010-2011 New Zealand earthquake sequence

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 815-823

  Barnhart, William D ^a   Willis, Michael J ^a   Lohman, Rowena B ^a   Melkonian, Andrew K ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT SLIP; OPTICAL METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 80755125743     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.815     Document Type: Article

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