Contemporary horizontal crustal movement estimation for northwestern Vietnam inferred from repeated GPS measurements

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1399-1410

  Duong, Nguyen Anh ^a,b   Sagiya, Takeshi ^b   Kimata, Fumiaki ^c   To, Tran Dinh ^a   Hai, Vy Quoc ^a   Cong, Duong Chi ^d   Binh, Nguyen Xuan ^a   Xuyen, Nguyen Dinh ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tono Research Institute of Earthquake Science   (Japan)

^d Vietnam Institute Geodesy and Cartography   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Coseismic offset; Crustal movement; Earthquake; GPS; Northwestern Vietnam

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GPS; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLIP RATE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRANSITION ZONE;

BAOSHAN BLOCK; CHINA; DA RIVER; DIEN BIEN PHU BASIN; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; SON LA; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; TOHOKU; VIET NAM; YUNNAN;

EID: 84896513595     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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