Coseismic deformation of the earthquakes from InSAR and GPS

Here is the kind of work I am doing now.

Take a paper " Coseismic deformation of the 2002 Denali fault earthquake: Contributions from synthetic aperture radar range offsets" by Elliott for example.

Let's say an earthquake with magnitude greater than 5 or above happened in some interesting region, we may think about these question when talking about its significance: what's the size, length, depth? How does it influence the neighborhood in the prospective of transportation, habitat, and environment. What is the tectonics in that region and how does this event relate to it ?

To understand the earthquake, one of the key is the development of a robust, detailed slip distribution model. The slip model indicates the locked depth of the fault and the location of major asperities. Spatial variation in slip are caused by preexisting stress heterogeneity and thus provide a fundamental measure of heterogeneity. Postseismic models depend on having a reliable coseismic slip model, especially in terms of fault geometry and how the maximum slip depth compares to the depth where viscous flow is expected to begin. An essential ingredient for an accurate slip model is a set of spatially dense near-field surface displacement measurements, which can be done by InSAR, GPS and geologic mapping. Seismic data, while providing information on how the rupture evolved over time, often apply a poorer constraint on the spatial slip distribution than geodetic measures.