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Hreinsdóttir et al. 2003
Hreinsdóttir, S., Freymueller, J.T., Fletcher, H.J., Larsen, C.F. and Bürgmann, R. (2003). Coseismic slip distribution of the 2002 MW7.9 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska, determined from GPS measurements. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL017447. issn: 0094-8276.

On 3 November 2002 an MW7.9 earthquake occurred in central Alaska. The earthquake ruptured portions of the Susitna Glacier, Denali, and Totschunda faults. Inversion of the GPS-measured displacement field indicates that the event was dominated by a complex, right-lateral strike-slip rupture along the Denali fault. GPS sites closest to the epicenter show the effect of thrust motion on the Susitna Glacier fault. The preferred coseismic slip model, with MW7.8, indicates relatively low slip on the western part of the rupture and high slip from about 60 km east of the hypocenter extending to the junction of the Denali and Totschunda faults. We find mostly shallow slip from the surface to 15 km depth, but the inversion suggests one large deep slip patch about 110 km east of the hypocenter. Our model predicts surface slip in good agreement with surface geological observations, where model resolution is good.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Seismic deformations, Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Seismology, Earthquake dynamics and mechanics, Tectonophysics, Continental neotectonics, Tectonophysics, Plate motions--present and recent
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Geophysical Research Letters
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