Insights into the 1968-1997 Dasht-e-Bayaz and Zirkuh earthquake sequences, eastern Iran, from calibrated relocations, InSAR and high-resolution satellite imagery

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1577-1603

  Walker, R T ^a   Bergman, E A ^b   Szeliga, W ^c   Fielding, E J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental neotectonics; Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Interferometry; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PARTS; ACTIVE TECTONICS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; MAIN SHOCK; NEOTECTONICS; RELATIVE LOCATION; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC STATION; SEPTEMBER 11; SPECIFIC SEGMENTS; SURFACE RUPTURES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; RELOCATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING METHOD; RELOCATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS;

IRAN;

EID: 81555202537     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05213.x     Document Type: Article

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