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Sylvain Barbot

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Sylvain Barbot
Email sbarbot@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Geophysics

Biography

Dr. Sylvain Barbot is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, where he researches the earthquake phenomenon, including the physics of friction, crustal dynamics, and lithosphere dynamics during the seismic cycle. His research combines laboratory friction experiments, numerical modeling, and tectonic geodesy. Sylvain Barbot co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on the physics of earthquakes and crustal deformation.

Sylvain Barbot studied earthquake physics and tectonic geodesy at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of...

Education

  • Ph.D. Earth Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 12/2009
  • M.S. Earth Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 12/2007
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 2009 – 2012

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    My research focuses on understanding the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system at time scales relevant to the seismic cycle. My work revolves around modeling seismic and geodetic data with the long-term goal of improving resilience to seismic hazards.

    Research Keywords

    Geodesy, fault and bulk rheology, numerical modeling

    Research Specialties

    Geophysics

    • (Fall 2021) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm, ONLINE
    • (Spring 2022) GEOL 440. Geophysics and Geoengineering, TTh, 02:00pm – 03:20pm
    • (Spring 2022) GEOL 558. Inverse Theory in the Earth Sciences, TBA – TBA
    • (Fall 2022) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm, THH201
    • (Fall 2022) GEOL 600. Earth Sciences Colloquium, M|M, 03:30pm|02:00pm – 04:20pm|02:50pm
    • (Spring 2023) GEOL 534. Mechanics of Lithospheric Deformation, TBA – TBA
    • (Spring 2023) GEOL 600. Earth Science Colloquium, M|M, 03:30pm|02:00pm – 04:20pm|02:50pm
    • (Fall 2023) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm, THH201
    • (Spring 2024) GEOL 440. Geophysics and Geoengineering, TTh, 02:00pm – 03:20pm
    • (Spring 2024) GEOL 558. Inverse Theory in the Earth Sciences, TBA – TBA
    • (Summer 2024) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, MTWTh, 10:00am – 12:05pm, ZHS 252
    • (Summer 2024) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, MTWTh, 01:00pm – 02:50pm, ZHS B54
    • (Summer 2024) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, MTWTh, 03:00pm – 04:50pm, ZHS B54
    • (Spring 2025) GEOL 534. Mechanics of Lithospheric Deformation, W, 09:00am – 11:25am
    • (Summer 2025) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, MTWTh, 10:00am – 12:05pm
    • (Summer 2025) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, MW, 01:00pm – 02:50pm
    • (Fall 2025) CORE 103. The Process of Change in Science: Thematic Option Honors Pro, TTh, 09:30am – 10:50am
    • (Fall 2025) GEOL 105. Planet Earth, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:40pm

  • Journal Article

    • Wu, B., Barbot, S. (2025). Evolution of the real area of contact during laboratory earthquakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 122 (23), pp. e2410496122. PubMed Web Address
    • Barbot, S. (2024). Does the direct effect of friction increase continuously with absolute temperature?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 121 (42), pp. e2405111121. PubMed Web Address
    • Sathiakumar, S., Barbot, S., Hubbard, J. (2024). The role of fault structural evolution on long-term slip rates and seismic cycles in the Himalayan orogenic wedge. Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett..
    • Barbot, S. (2024). Transient and steady-state friction in non-isobaric conditions. Geochem., Geophys. & Geosys..
    • Xu, H., Barbot, S., Wang, T. (2024). Remote sensing through the fog of war: Infrastructure damage and environmental change during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict revealed by open-access data. Natural Hazards Research.
    • Barbot, S., Zhang, L. (2023). Constitutive behavior of olivine gouge across the brittle-ductile transition. Geophys. Res. Lett..
    • Barbot, S. (2023). Motorcycle: A spectral boundary-integral method for seismic cycles on multiple faults. J. Open Source Software.
    • Julve, J., Barbot, S., Moreno, M., Araya, R., Catalan, N., Crempien, J., Becerra, V. (2023). Size and timing of megathrust earthquakes controlled by rock composition and forearc structure in Southern Chile. Nature Geosciences.
    • Shen, F., Wang, L., Barbot, S. (2023). North China as a mechanical bridge linking Pacific subduction and extrusion of the Tibetan plateau. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett..
    • Barbot, S. (2023). Constitutive behavior of rocks during the seismic cycle. AGU Advances.
    • Gauriau, J., Barbot, S., Dolan, J. (2023). Islands of chaos in a sea of periodic earthquakes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett..
    • Barbot, S. (2023). Three-dimensional kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision. Comm. Earth & Env..
    • Barbot, S., Luo, H., Wang, T., Piatibratova, O., Javed, M., Braitenberg, C., Gurbuz, G. (2023). Slip distribution of the February 6, 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6, Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquake sequence in the East Anatolian Fault Zone. Seismica.
    • Erickson, B., Barbot, S. (2023). Incorporating full elastodynamic effects and dipping fault geometries in community code verification exercises for simulations of earthquake sequences and aseismic slip. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am..
    • Wang, B., Barbot, S. (2023). Pulse-like ruptures, seismic swarms, and tremorgenic slow-slip events with thermally activated friction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett..
    • Javed, M., Barbot, S., Javed, F., Ali, A., Braitenberg, C. (2022). Blind rupture at a frontal ramp of the Suleiman thrust-and-fold belt, Pakistan. Geophys. Res. Lett..
    • Barbot, S. (2022). A rate-, state-, and temperature-dependent friction law with competing healing mechanisms. J. Geophys. Res..
    • Shi, P., Wei, M., Barbot, S. (2022). Contribution of viscoelastic stress to the synchronization of earthquake cycles on oceanic transform faults. J. Geophys. Res..
    • Nie, S., Barbot, S. (2022). Rupture styles linked to recurrence patterns in seismic cycles with a compliant fault zone. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett..
    • Qiang, Q., Barbot, S. (2022). Tsunami excitation in the outer wedge of global subduction zones. Earth Science Reviews.
    • Jiang, J., Barbot, S. (2022). Community-driven code comparisons for three-dimensional dynamic modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS). J. Geophys. Res..
    • Nie, S., Barbot, S. (2021). Seismogenic and tremorgenic slow slip near the stability transition of frictional sliding. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. Vol. 569
    • Barbot, S. (2021). A Spectral Boundary-Integral Method for Quasi-Dynamic Ruptures of Multiple Parallel Faults. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Vol. 111 (3), pp. 1614-1630.
    • Sathiakumar, S., Barbot, S. (2021). The stop-start control of seismicity by fault bends along the Main Himalayan Thrust. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT. Vol. 2 (1)
    • Mei, C., Barbot, S., Wu, W. (2021). Period-Multiplying Cycles at the Transition Between Stick-Slip and Stable Sliding and Implications for the Parkfield Period-Doubling Tremors. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 48 (7)
    • Hang, Y., Barbot, S., Dauwels, J., Wang, T., Nanjundiah, P., Qiu, Q. (2020). Outlier-insensitive Bayesian inference for linear inverse problems (OutIBI) with applications to space geodetic data. Geophysical Journal International. Vol. 221 (1), pp. 334-350.
    • Shi, Q., Barbot, S., Wei, S., Tapponnier, P., Matsuzawa, T., Shibazaki, B. (2020). Structural control and system-level behavior of the seismic cycle at the Nankai Trough. Earth Planets and Space. Vol. 72 (1)
    • Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A., Fialko, Y., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., McKay, M. B., Segall, P., Shi, P., van den Ende, M., Wei, M. (2020). The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS). Seismological Research Letters. Vol. 91 (2), pp. 874-890.
    • Nanjundiah, P., Barbot, S., Wei, S. (2020). Static Source Properties of Slow and Fast Earthquakes. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 125 (12)
    • Veedu, D. M., Giorgetti, C., Scuderi, M., Barbot, S., Marone, C., Collettini, C. (2020). Bifurcations at the Stability Transition of Earthquake Faulting. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 47 (19)
    • Tang, C., Barbot, S., Hsu, Y., Wu, Y. (2020). Heterogeneous Power-Law Flow With Transient Creep in Southern California Following the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 125 (9)
    • Wang, L., Barbot, S. (2020). Excitation of San Andreas tremors by thermal instabilities below the seismogenic zone. SCIENCE ADVANCES. Vol. 6 (36)
    • Barbot, S. (2020). Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. Vol. 11 (1)
    • Qiu, Q., Barbot, S., Wang, T., Wei, S. (2020). Slip Complementarity and Triggering between the Foreshock, Mainshock, and Afterslip of the 2019 Ridgecrest Rupture Sequence. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Vol. 110 (4), pp. 1701-1715.
    • Sathiakumar, S., Barbot, S., Hubbard, J. (2020). Earthquake Cycles in Fault-Bend Folds. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 125 (8)
    • Barbot, S. (2020). Frictional and structural controls of seismic super-cycles at the Japan trench. EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE. Vol. 72 (1)
    • Barbot, S. (2019). Modulation of fault strength during the seismic cycle by grain-size evolution around contact junctions. Tectonophysics. Vol. 765, pp. 129-145.
    • Barbot, S. (2019). Slow-slip, slow earthquakes, period-two cycles, full and partial ruptures, and deterministic chaos in a single asperity fault. Tectonophysics. Vol. 768
    • Barbot, S. (2019). Physics of Megathrust Earthquakes: Introduction. Pure and Applied Geophysics. Vol. 176 (9), pp. 3813-3814.
    • Ong, S. Q., Barbot, S., Hubbard, J. (2019). Physics-Based Scenario of Earthquake Cycles on the Ventura Thrust System, California: The Effect of Variable Friction and Fault Geometry. Pure and Applied Geophysics. Vol. 176 (9), pp. 3993-4007.
    • Masuti, S., Karato, S., Girard, J., Barbot, S. D. (2019). Anisotropic high-temperature creep in hydrous olivine single crystals and its geodynamic implications. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. Vol. 290, pp. 1-9.
    • Landry, W., Barbot, S. (2019). Fast, accurate solutions for 3D strain volumes in a heterogeneous half space. Computers & Geosciences. Vol. 125, pp. 109-114.
    • Agata, R., Barbot, S. D., Fujita, K., Hyodo, M., Iinuma, T., Nakata, R., Ichimura, T., Hori, T. (2019). Rapid mantle flow with power-law creep explains deformation after the 2011 Tohoku mega-quake. Nature Communications. Vol. 10
    • Tang, C., Hsu, Y., Barbot, S., Moore, J. D., Chang, W. (2019). Lower-crustal rheology and thermal gradient in the Taiwan orogenic belt illuminated by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. Science Advances. Vol. 5 (2)
    • Weiss, J. R., Qiu, Q., Barbot, S., Wright, T. J., Foster, J. H., Saunders, A., Brooks, B. A., Bevis, M., Kendrick, E., Ericksen, T. L., Avery, J., Smalley, R. J., Cimbaro, S. R., Lenzano, L. E., Baron, J., Carlos Baez, J., Echalar, A. (2019). Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake. Science Advances. Vol. 5 (12)
    • Rollins, C., Avouac, J., Landry, W., Argus, D. F., Barbot, S. (2018). Interseismic Strain Accumulation on Faults Beneath Los Angeles, California. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 123 (8), pp. 7126-7150.
    • Karato, S., Barbot, S. (2018). Dynamics of fault motion and the origin of contrasting tectonic style between Earth and Venus. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. Vol. 8
    • Barbot, S. (2018). Deformation of a Half-Space from Anelastic Strain Confined in a Tetrahedral Volume. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Vol. 108 (5A), pp. 2687-2712.
    • Barbot, S. (2018). Asthenosphere Flow Modulated by Megathrust Earthquake Cycles. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 45 (12), pp. 6018-6031.
    • Landry, W., Barbot, S. (2018). Gamra: Simple meshing for complex earthquakes (vol 90, pg 49, 2016). COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES. Vol. 117, pp. 63-63.
    • Wang, T., Shi, Q., Nikkhoo, M., Wei, S., Barbot, S., Dreger, D., Burgmann, R., Motagh, M., Chen, Q. (2018). The rise, collapse, and compaction of Mt. Mantap from the 3 September 2017 North Korean nuclear test. SCIENCE. Vol. 361 (6398), pp. 166-170.
    • Chanard, K., Fleitout, L., Calais, E., Barbot, S., Avouac, J. (2018). Constraints on Transient Viscoelastic Rheology of the Asthenosphere From Seasonal Deformation. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 45 (5), pp. 2328-2338.
    • Qiu, Q., Moore, J. D., Barbot, S., Feng, L., Hill, E. M. (2018). Transient rheology of the Sumatran mantle wedge revealed by a decade of great earthquakes. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. Vol. 9
    • Wang, T., Wei, S., Shi, X., Qiu, Q., Li, L., Peng, D., Weldon, R. J., Barbot, S. (2018). The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake: Simultaneous rupture of the subduction interface and overlying faults. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. Vol. 482, pp. 44-51.
    • Sathiakumar, S., Barbot, S., Agram, P. (2017). Extending Resolution of Fault Slip With Geodetic Networks Through Optimal Network Design. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 122 (12), pp. 10538-10558.
    • Salman, R., Hill, E. M., Feng, L., Lindsey, E. O., Veedu, D. M., Barbot, S., Banerjee, P., Hermawan, I., Natawidjaja, D. H. (2017). Piecemeal Rupture of the Mentawai Patch, Sumatra: The 2008 M-w 7.2 North Pagai Earthquake Sequence. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 122 (11), pp. 9404-9419.
    • Feng, W., Lindsey, E., Barbot, S., Samsonov, S., Dai, K., Li, P., Li, Z., Almeida, R., Chen, J., Xu, X. (2017). Source characteristics of the 2015 M-w 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its M-w 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy. TECTONOPHYSICS. Vol. 712, pp. 747-758.
    • Barbot, S., Moore, J. D., Lambert, V. (2017). Displacement and Stress Associated with Distributed Anelastic Deformation in a Half-Space. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Vol. 107 (2), pp. 821-855.
    • Moore, J. D., Yu, H., Tang, C., Wang, T., Barbot, S., Peng, D., Masuti, S., Dauwels, J., Hsu, Y., Lambert, V., Nanjundiah, P., Wei, S., Lindsey, E., Feng, L., Shibazaki, B. (2017). Imaging the distribution of transient viscosity after the 2016 M-w 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake. SCIENCE. Vol. 356 (6334), pp. 163-167.
    • Singh, S. C., Hananto, N., Qin, Y., Leclerc, F., Avianto, P., Tapponnier, P. E., Carton, H., Wei, S., Nugroho, A. B., Gemilang, W. A., Sieh, K., Barbot, S. (2017). The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone. SCIENCE ADVANCES. Vol. 3 (1)
    • Veedu, D. M., Barbot, S. (2016). The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity. NATURE. Vol. 532 (7599)
    • Tsang, L. L., Hill, E. M., Barbot, S., Qiu, Q., Feng, L., Hermawan, I., Banerjee, P., Natawidjaja, D. H. (2016). Afterslip following the 2007 M-w 8.4 Bengkulu earthquake in Sumatra loaded the 2010 M-w 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake rupture zone. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 121 (12), pp. 9034-9049.
    • Lambert, V., Barbot, S. (2016). Contribution of viscoelastic flow in earthquake cycles within the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 43 (19), pp. 10142-10154.
    • Masuti, S., Barbot, S. D., Karato, S., Feng, L., Banerjee, P. (2016). Upper-mantle water stratification inferred from observations of the 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake. NATURE. Vol. 538 (7625), pp. 373-+.
    • Feng, L., Barbot, S., Hill, E. M., Hermawan, I., Banerjee, P., Natawidjaja, D. H. (2016). Footprints of past earthquakes revealed in the afterslip of the 2010 M-w 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 43 (18), pp. 9518-9526.
    • Qiu, Q., Hill, E. M., Barbot, S., Hubbard, J., Feng, W., Lindsey, E. O., Feng, L., Dai, K., Samsonov, S. V., Tapponnier, P. (2016). The mechanism of partial rupture of a locked megathrust: The role of fault morphology. GEOLOGY. Vol. 44 (10), pp. 875-878.
    • Veedu, D. M., Barbot, S. (2016). The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity. Nature. Vol. 532 (7599), pp. 361-5.
    • Landry, W., Barbot, S. (2016). Gamra: Simple meshing for complex earthquakes. COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES. Vol. 90, pp. 49-63.
    • Hill, E. M., Yue, H., Barbot, S., Lay, T., Tapponnier, P., Hermawan, I., Hubbard, J., Banerjee, P., Feng, L., Natawidjaja, D., Sieh, K. (2015). The 2012 M(w)8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near-orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 120 (5), pp. 3723-3747.
    • Rollins, C., Barbot, S., Avouac, J. (2015). Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake: Observations, Kinematic Inversions, and Dynamic Models. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. Vol. 172 (5), pp. 1305-1358.
    • Wei, S., Barbot, S., Graves, R., Lienkaemper, J. J., Wang, T., Hudnut, K., Fu, Y., Helmberger, D. (2015). The 2014 M-W 6.1 South Napa Earthquake: A Unilateral Rupture with Shallow Asperity and Rapid Afterslip. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. Vol. 86 (2), pp. 344-354.
    • Hubbard, J., Barbot, S., Hill, E. M., Tapponnier, P. (2015). Coseismic slip on shallow decollement megathrusts: implications for seismic and tsunami hazard. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS. Vol. 141, pp. 45-55.
    • Lindsey, E. O., Sahakian, V. J., Fialko, Y., Bock, Y., Barbot, S., Rockwell, T. K. (2014). Interseismic Strain Localization in the San Jacinto Fault Zone. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. Vol. 171 (11), pp. 2937-2954.
    • Barbot, S., Agram, P., De Michele, M. (2013). Change of apparent segmentation of the San Andreas fault around Parkfield from space geodetic observations across multiple periods. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 118 (12), pp. 6311-6327.
    • Chang, S., Avouac, J., Barbot, S., Lee, J. (2013). Spatially variable fault friction derived from dynamic modeling of aseismic afterslip due to the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 118 (7), pp. 3431-3447.
    • Rousset, B., Barbot, S., Avouac, J., Hsu, Y. (2012). Postseismic deformation following the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan: Implication for lower-crust rheology. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 117
    • Barbot, S., Lapusta, N., Avouac, J. (2012). Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Toward Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle. SCIENCE. Vol. 336 (6082), pp. 707-710.
    • Bruhat, L., Barbot, S., Avouac, J. (2011). Evidence for postseismic deformation of the lower crust following the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield earthquake. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 116
    • Barbot, S., Fialko, Y. (2010). A unified continuum representation of post-seismic relaxation mechanisms: semi-analytic models of afterslip, poroelastic rebound and viscoelastic flow. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. Vol. 182 (3), pp. 1124-1140.
    • Barbot, S., Fialko, Y. (2010). Fourier-domain Green’s function for an elastic semi-infinite solid under gravity, with applications to earthquake and volcano deformation. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. Vol. 182 (2), pp. 568-582.
    • Barbot, S., Fialko, Y., Sandwell, D. (2009). Three-dimensional models of elastostatic deformation in heterogeneous media, with applications to the Eastern California Shear Zone. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. Vol. 179 (1), pp. 500-520.
    • Barbot, S., Fialko, Y., Bock, Y. (2009). Postseismic deformation due to the M-w 6.0 2004 Parkfield earthquake: Stress-driven creep on a fault with spatially variable rate-and-state friction parameters. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 114
    • Cochran, E. S., Li, Y., Shearer, P. M., Barbot, S., Fialko, Y., Vidale, J. E. (2009). Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage zones. GEOLOGY. Vol. 37 (4), pp. 315-318.
    • Barbot, S., Fialko, Y., Sandwell, D. (2008). Effect of a compliant fault zone on the inferred earthquake slip distribution. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 113 (B6)
    • Barbot, S., Hamiel, Y., Fialko, Y. (2008). Space geodetic investigation of the coseismic and postseismic deformation due to the 2003 M(w)7.2 Altai earthquake: Implications for the local lithospheric rheology. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. Vol. 113 (B3)
    • Leprince, S., Barbot, S., Ayoub, F., Avouac, J. (2007). Automatic and precise orthorectification, coregistration, and subpixel correlation of satellite images, application to ground deformation measurements. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. Vol. 45 (6), pp. 1529-1558.

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