Stick-slip advance of the Kohat Plateau in Pakistan

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-150

  Satyabala, S P ^a   Yang, Zhaohui ^b   Bilham, Roger ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FRICTION; INDIAN PLATE; PLATEAU; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RUPTURE; SEISMIC DATA; STICK-SLIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIMALAYAS; KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; KOHAT; KOHISTAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84863081999     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1373     Document Type: Article

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