Seven years of postseismic deformation following the 2003 Mw=6.8 Zemmouri earthquake (Algeria) from InSAR time series

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Cetin, Esra ^a,b   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^b   Cakir, Ziyadin ^a   Akoglu, Ahmet M ^c   Mimouni, Omar ^d   Chebbah, Mouloud ^e  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^e Agence National des Ressources Hydrauliques   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SUBSIDENCE; TIME SERIES;

ALGERIA; ALGIERS; CO-SEISMIC UPLIFTS; COSEISMIC SLIPS; CYCLE MODEL; ENVISAT ASAR; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; GROUND MOVEMENT; GROUND WATER TABLE; INVERSE MODELING; MULTI-TEMPORAL; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SMALL BASELINES; SOFT SEDIMENTS; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COAST; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ENVISAT-1; GPS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBSIDENCE; TIME SERIES; UPLIFT; WATER TABLE; GROUND MOVEMENT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGER [ALGERIA]; ALGERIA; ALGIERS; BOUMERDES; ZEMMOURI;

EID: 84861691085     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051344     Document Type: Article

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