Coseismic slip from the 6 October 2008, Mw6.3 Damxung Earthquake, Tibetan Plateau, Constrained by InSAR Observations

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1749-1758

  Qiao, Xuejun ^a   Yang, Shaomin ^a   Du, Ruilin ^a   Ge, Linlin ^b   Wang, Qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coseismic deformation; Damxung earthquake; InSAR; Southeastern Piedmont of the Nyainqentanglha Mountains

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS HALF SPACE; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT; NON-LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; OPTIMIZED ALGORITHMS; SOUTHEASTERN PIEDMONT OF THE NYAINQENTANGLHA MOUNTAINS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84882578868     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0190-1     Document Type: Article

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