Coseismic deformation and triggered landslides of the 2016 Mw 6.2 Amatrice earthquake in Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1266-1274

  Huang, Mong Han ^a   Fielding, Eric J ^a   Liang, Cunren ^a   Milillo, Pietro ^a   Bekaert, David ^a   Dreger, Douglas ^b   Salzer, Jacqueline ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

2016 Amatrice earthquake; geodetic inversion; SAR interferometry; triggered deep seated landslide

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDSLIDES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DEEP SEATED LANDSLIDE; GEODETIC INVERSION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; LANDSLIDE; PEAK ACCELERATION; SLIP RATE;

APENNINES; ITALY; MOUNT VETTORE; SIBILLINI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 85012050276     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071687     Document Type: Article

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