Coseismic slip in the 2010 Yushu earthquake (China), constrained by wide-swath and strip-map InSAR

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-44

  Wen, Y ^a,b   Xu, C ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Jiang, G ^a   He, P ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALOS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; MODEL TEST; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; SMOOTHING; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING; YUSHU EARTHQUAKE 2010;

CHINA; QINGHAI; YUSHU;

EID: 84872254396     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-35-2013     Document Type: Article

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