Recognizing and characterizing strike-slip faults and earthquakes in ...

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Earthquake Tectonics and Hazards on the Continents

R. Walker

17 - 28 June 2013

University of Oxford, UK

Recognizing and characterizing strike-slip faults and earthquakes in Iran, Mongolia and Kazakhstan

http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~lacassin/Kunlun/kunlun.html

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Arabia

Eurasia

30 mm/yr

Lut Desert

Lut Desert

Arabia

Eurasia

30 mm/yr

T1 T1a

T2

T3

Arabia

Eurasia

30 mm/yr

A fault trace running adjacent to Bam and Baravat, and marked by a 20-m high ridge, is clearly visible in satellite imagery.

Immediately following the earthquake in 2003 it was believed that this was the fault that had ruptured in the earthquake.

The first major earthquake for which a radar interferogram was constructed using Envisat radar data.

Interferogram, descending pass