Source characteristics of the 2017 Mw6.4 Moijabana, Botswana earthquake, a rare lower-crustal event within an ancient zone of weakness

• Main Authors: Materna, Kathryn, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Heng, Luo, Wang, Teng, Chen, Weiwen, Salman, Rino, Bürgmann, Roland
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; InSAR-teleseismic Joint Inversion; Sentinel-1
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150764
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 2017 Moijabana earthquake in central Botswana (Mw6.4) was a large and deep event for a continental interior and occurred in a region with little historical seismicity. Based on InSAR measurements of surface deformation spanning the event and teleseismic observations, we determine the ruptured fa...