Seismic slip deficit in the Kashmir Himalaya from GPS observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5642-5645

  Schiffman, Celia ^a   Bali, Bikram Singh ^b   Szeliga, Walter ^c   Bilham, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^c CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS measurements; Kashmir seismic hazard; slip deficit

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATES; GPS MEASUREMENTS; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP DEFICIT; THEORETICAL MOMENTS; TRANSITION ZONES;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONVERGENCE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLIP; TRANSITION ZONE;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; KASHMIR VALLEY;

EID: 84887287502     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057700     Document Type: Article

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