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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
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