Spatio-temporal evolution of aseismic slip along the Haiyuan fault, China: Implications for fault frictional properties

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 377-378, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-33

  Jolivet, R ^a   Lasserre, C ^a   Doin, M P ^a   Peltzer, G ^b,c   Avouac, J P ^d   Sun, J ^e   Dailu, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Chinese Earthquake Administration   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Frictional properties; SAR interferometry; Shallow creep; Strike slip fault; Tibet

Indexed keywords

FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; RATE-AND-STATE FRICTIONS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIBET;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FAULTING;

CREEP; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENVISAT-1; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRAIN RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY PROFILE;

CHINA; HAIYUAN FAULT ZONE; NINGXIA HUIZU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84882942880     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.020     Document Type: Article

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