Joint analysis of the 2014 Kangding, southwest China, earthquake sequence with seismicity relocation and InSAR inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3273-3281

  Jiang, Guoyan ^a   Wen, Yangmao ^b   Liu, Yajing ^c   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Fang, Lihua ^a   Chen, Guihua ^a   Gong, Meng ^a   Xu, Caijun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

2014 Kangding earthquake; InSAR inversion; moment budget; seismicity relocation

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; FAULT SLIPS; INTERFEROMETRY; STRAIN ENERGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCUMULATED STRAIN; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; INSAR INVERSION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INVERSION RESULTS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; KANGDING; SICHUAN;

EID: 84930480846     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063750     Document Type: Article

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