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...

introduction iran forms a relatively compact zone of active continental deformation resulted from the northward collision of arabia with eurasia during late cenozoic times, which is continuing to the present-day at a rate of 25 mm/yrs (from gps data). evidences of active tectonic in different parts of iran, has been studied and identified. the arid climate, low rates of erosion, and minimal veg...

Technical Abstract We determined orientations of principal stresses around the San Andreas Fault (SAF) system in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and regions further north along the strike-slip plate boundary. Stress orientations, as well as a ratio between stress magnitudes, were determined by inversions of approximately 6000 earthquake fault plane solutions, divided into ~100 groups based o...