Shortcomings of InSAR for studying megathrust earthquakes: The case of the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Guangcai ^a   Jónsson, Sigurjón ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FAULT SLIPS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC ERRORS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; ENVISAT SATELLITE; FAULT-SLIP MODEL; GEODETIC DATA; GPS DATA; INSAR DATA; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; SEA FLOOR; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SLIP MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALOS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ENVISAT-1; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; EARTHQUAKE; WAVELENGTH;

JAPAN;

EID: 84861386836     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051628     Document Type: Article

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