Monthly migration of a tectonic seismic swarm detected by DInSAR: Southwest Peloponnese, Greece

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1302-1309

  Kyriakopoulos, Christodoulos ^a,b   Chini, Marco ^b,c   Bignami, Christian ^b   Stramondo, Salvatore ^b   Ganas, Athanassios ^d   Kolligri, Maria ^d   Moshou, Alexandra ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Radar interferometry; Satellite geodesy; Seismic cycle; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEISMIC CYCLE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; TECTONICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT PLANE; GEODESY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

GREECE; KALAMATA; MESSENIA; PELOPONNESE; PELOPONNISOS;

EID: 84882718993     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt196     Document Type: Article

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