Fault-slip source models for the 2011 M 7.1 van earthquake in Turkey from SAR interferometry, pixel offset tracking, GPS, and seismic waveform analysis

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 579-593

  Fielding, Eric J ^a   Lundgren, Paul R ^a   Taymaz, Tuncay ^b   Yolsal Çevikbilen, Seda ^b   Owen, Susan E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TURKEY;

EID: 84880219115     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220120164     Document Type: Article

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