Kinematic fault slip evolution source models of the 2008 M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China from SAR interferometry, GPS and teleseismic analysis and implications for Longmen Shan tectonics
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Eric J. Fielding,1 Anthony Sladen,2,∗ Zhenhong Li,3 Jean-Philippe Avouac,2 Roland Bürgmann4 and Isabelle Ryder4,† 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 300-233, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Tectonics Observatory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 100-23, 1200 California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 3School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 4Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 389 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767
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