Joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data for the source of the 2010 march 4,Mw 6.3 Jia-Shian, SW Taiwan, earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1608-1626

  Huang, Mong Han ^a   Dreger, Douglas ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^a   Yoo, Seung Hoon ^a   Hashimoto, Manabu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Earthquake source observations; Radar interferometry; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS: SEISMOTECTONICS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS;

DROPS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; INVERSION TECTONICS; JOINT; MOMENT TENSOR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRUST;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84877971535     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt058     Document Type: Article

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