Fault slip models of the 2010-2011 Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquakes from geodetic data and observations of postseismic ground deformation

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 207-221

  Beavan, John ^a   Motagh, Mahdi ^b   Fielding, Eric J ^c   Donnelly, Nic ^d   Collett, Dave ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Land Information New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Canterbury; Earthquake; GPS; InSAR; New Zealand; Source model

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FAULTING; GEODESY; GPS; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84867005257     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2012.697472     Document Type: Article

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