Comprehensive observation and modeling of earthquake and temperature-related seismic velocity changes in northern Chile with passive image interferometry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4747-4765

  Richter, Tom ^a,b   Sens Schönfelder, Christoph ^b   Kind, Rainer ^a,b   Asch, Günter ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

passive image interferometry; seismic velocity change; shaking induced rock damage; thermal stress

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; INTERFEROMETRY; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; TOCOPILLA;

EID: 84904700692     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010695     Document Type: Article

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