Geodetic observations of postseismic creep in the decade after the 1999 Izmit earthquake, Turkey: Implications for a shallow slip deficit

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2980-3001

  Hussain, Ekbal ^a   Wright, Tim J ^a   Walters, Richard J ^a,b   Bekaert, David ^a   Hooper, Andrew ^a   Houseman, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

creep; InSAR; Izmit; North Anatolian Fault

Indexed keywords

CREEP; ENVISAT; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GPS; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IZMIT; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84962809074     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JB012737     Document Type: Article

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