Coseismic and post-seismic activity associated with the 2008 Mw 6.3 Damxung earthquake, Tibet, constrained by InSAR

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 788-803

  Bie, Lidong ^a   Ryder, Isabelle ^a   Nippress, Stuart E J ^b   B̈urgmann, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Earthquake source observations; Radar interferometry; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Seismic cycle; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ASIA; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RHEOLOGY: CRUST AND LITHOSPHERES; SEISMIC CYCLE;

CAPILLARY FLOW; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VISCOSITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENVISAT-1; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; DAMXUNG; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84892457898     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt444     Document Type: Article

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