Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence

ZE Ross, B Idini, Z Jia, OL Stephenson, M Zhong… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A nearly 20-year hiatus in major seismic activity in southern California ended on 4 July 2019
with a sequence of intersecting earthquakes near the city of Ridgecrest, California. This …

Earthquake cycle deformation and the Moho: Implications for the rheology of continental lithosphere

TJ Wright, JR Elliott, H Wang, I Ryder - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The last 20 years has seen a dramatic improvement in the quantity and quality of geodetic
measurements of the earthquake loading cycle. In this paper we compile and review these …

Inversion of surface deformation data for rapid estimates of source parameters and uncertainties: A Bayesian approach

M Bagnardi, A Hooper - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
New satellite missions (eg, the European Space Agency's Sentinel‐1 constellation),
advances in data downlinking, and rapid product generation now provide us with the ability …

Systematic comparisons of earthquake source models determined using InSAR and seismic data

J Weston, AMG Ferreira, GJ Funning - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Robust earthquake source parameters (eg, location, seismic moment, fault geometry) are
essential for reliable seismic hazard assessment and the investigation of large-scale …

Coseismic and early postseismic deformation due to the 2021 M7. 4 Maduo (China) earthquake

Z Jin, Y Fialko - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The 2021 Maduo earthquake ruptured a 150 km‐long left‐lateral fault in the northeast Tibet.
We used Synthetic Aperture Radar data collected by the Sentinel‐1A/B satellites within days …

The physics of earthquakes

H Kanamori, EE Brodsky - Reports on progress in physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Earthquakes occur as a result of global plate motion. However, this simple picture is far from
complete. Some plate boundaries glide past each other smoothly, while others are …

Automatic and precise orthorectification, coregistration, and subpixel correlation of satellite images, application to ground deformation measurements

S Leprince, S Barbot, F Ayoub… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a procedure to accurately measure ground deformations from optical satellite
images. Precise orthorectification is obtained owing to an optimized model of the imaging …

Displacement and geometrical characteristics of earthquake surface ruptures: Issues and implications for seismic-hazard analysis and the process of earthquake …

SG Wesnousky - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There now exist about three dozen historical earthquakes for which investigators have
constructed maps of earthquake rupture traces accompanied by descriptions of the …

Improving InSAR geodesy using global atmospheric models

R Jolivet, PS Agram, NY Lin, M Simons… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial and temporal variations of pressure, temperature, and water vapor content in the
atmosphere introduce significant confounding delays in interferometric synthetic aperture …

Himalayan megathrust geometry and relation to topography revealed by the Gorkha earthquake

JR Elliott, R Jolivet, PJ González, JP Avouac… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Himalayan mountain range has been the locus of some of the largest continental
earthquakes, including the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake. Competing hypotheses …