Measurement of interseismic strain accumulation across the North Anatolian Fault by satellite radar interferometry

Details Measurement of interseismic strain accumulation across the North Anatolian Fault by satellite radar interferometry Measurement of interseismic strain accumulation across the North Anatolian Fault by satellite radar interferometry

May 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.2117w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 10, p. 2117-2120

Physics

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Geodesy And Gravity: Crustal Movements-Interplate, Geodesy And Gravity: Space Geodetic Surveys, Geodesy And Gravity: Instruments And Techniques

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In recent years, interseismic crustal velocities and strains have been determined for a number of tectonically active areas through repeated measurements using the Global Positioning System. The terrain in such areas is often remote and difficult, and the density of GPS measurements relatively sparse. In principle, satellite radar interferometry can be used to make millimetric-precision measurements of surface displacement over large surface areas. In practice, the small crustal deformation signal is dominated over short time intervals by errors due to atmospheric, topographic and orbital effects. Here we show that these effects can be overcome by stacking multiple interferograms, after screening for atmospheric anomalies, effectively creating a new interferogram that covers a longer time interval. In this way, we have isolated a 70 km wide region of crustal deformation across the eastern end of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey. The distribution of deformation is consistent with slip of 17-32 mm/yr below 5-33 km on the extension of the surface fault at depth. If the GPS determined slip rate of 24+/-1mm/yr is accepted, the locking depth is constrained to 18+/-6km.

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