The 2010-2011 south rigan (baluchestan) earthquake sequence and its implications for distributed deformation and earthquake hazard in southeast Iran

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 349-374

  Walker, R T ^a   Bergman, E A ^b   Elliott, J R ^a   Fielding, E J ^c   Ghods, A R ^d   Ghoraishi, M ^e   Jackson, J ^f   Nazari, H ^e   Nemati, M ^e,g   Oveisi, B ^e   Talebian, M ^e   Walters, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asia; Body waves; Continental neotectonics; Radar interferometry; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL NEOTECTONICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; BODY WAVE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; NEOTECTONICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SPOT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN]; RIGAN;

EID: 84876862618     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs109     Document Type: Article

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