A two-fault model of the 2003 Leucas (Aegean Arc) earthquake based on topological inversion of GPS data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2510-2520

  Saltogianni, Vasso ^a   Stiros, Stathis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Description of analytical inversion methodology (the TOPological INVersion algorithm TOPINV ); Including a figure showing projection of hypergrids on planes

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE; COVARIANCE MATRICES; INCLUDING A FIGURE SHOWING PROJECTION OF HYPERGRIDS ON PLANES; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; OBSERVATION EQUATION; STATISTICAL MOMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GPS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOLOGY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; LEFKADA;

LEUCAS;

EID: 84943328473     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120140355     Document Type: Article

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