Extension on the Tibetan plateau: recent normal faulting measured by InSAR and body wave seismology

Normal faulting sequence in the Pumqu-Xainza Rift constrained by InSAR and teleseismic body-wave seismology

Normal faulting earthquakes play an important role in the deformation of continents, and pose significant seismic hazard, yet important questions remain about their mechanics. We use InSAR and bodywave seismology to compute dislocation models and centroid moment solutions for four normal-faulting earthquakes (Mw 5.7–6.2) that occurred in the Pumqu-Xainza Rift (PXR), southern Tibet, a region whe...

Dust over the Tibetan Plateau measured by CALIPSO

Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations Zhaoyan Liu, Dong Liu, Jianping Huang, M. Vaughan, Itsushi Uno, Nobuo Sugimoto, Chieko Kittaka, C. Trepte, Zhien Wang, C. Hostetler, and D. Winker National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA 23666, USA University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Lanzhou Univers...

Coseismic Slip from the 6 October 2008, Mw6.3 Damxung Earthquake, Tibetan Plateau, Constrained by InSAR Observations

Coseismic deformation fields of the 6 October 2008 Mw6.3 Damxung earthquake were obtained from interferometric synthetic aperture radar by using three descending and two ascending Envisat images. Significant coseismic surface deformation occurred within 20 km 9 20 km of the epicenter with a maximum displacement of *0.3 m along the satellite line of sight. We model a linear elastic dislocation i...

Climatic Warming in the Tibetan Plateau during Recent Decades

Adequate knowledge of climatic change over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) with an average elevation of more than 4000 m above sea level (a.s.l.) has been insufficient for a long time owing to the lack of sufficient observational data. In the present study, monthly surface air temperature data were collected from almost every meteorological station on the TP since their establishment. There are 97 sta...

Introduction to Seismology: The wave equation and body waves