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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
6816
World Ranking
5245
National Ranking
564

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Best Publications

  • Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  • Himalayan megathrust geometry and relation to topography revealed by the Gorkha earthquake

    John Elliott;Romain Jolivet;Romain Jolivet;Pablo González;Jean-Philippe Avouac;Jean-Philippe Avouac

  • LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor

    Yu Morishita;Milan Lazecky;Tim J. Wright;Jonathan R. Weiss

  • InSAR slip rate determination on the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern Tibet, in the presence of topographically correlated atmospheric delays

    J.R. Elliott;Juliet Biggs;Juliet Biggs;B. Parsons;T.J. Wright

  • The role of space-based observation in understanding and responding to active tectonics and earthquakes

    J.R. Elliott;J.R. Elliott;R.J. Walters;R.J. Walters;T.J. Wright

  • Crustal–lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet

    M.P. Searle;J.R. Elliott;R.J. Phillips;S.-L. Chung

  • LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity

    Milan Lazecký;Karsten Spaans;Pablo J. González;Yasser Maghsoudi

  • Extension on the Tibetan plateau: recent normal faulting measured by InSAR and body wave seismology

    J. R. Elliott;R. J. Walters;P. C. England;J. A. Jackson

  • The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): A source mechanism and implications for seismic hazard

    R. J. Walters;J. R. Elliott;N. D'Agostino;P. C. England

  • High‐resolution surface velocities and strain for Anatolia from Sentinel‐1 InSAR and GNSS data.

    Jonathan R. Weiss;Jonathan R. Weiss;Richard J. Walters;Yu Morishita;Yu Morishita;Tim J. Wright

  • Slip in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand

    J. R. Elliott;Edwin Nissen;P. C. England;James A. Jackson

  • The 2010 MW 6.8 Yushu (Qinghai, China) earthquake: Constraints provided by InSAR and body wave seismology

    Zhenhong Li;John R. Elliott;Wanpeng Feng;Wanpeng Feng;James A. Jackson

  • Quantitative morphology, recent evolution, and future activity of the Kameni Islands volcano, Santorini, Greece

    David M. Pyle;John R. Elliott

  • Earthquake cycle deformation and the Moho: Implications for the rheology of continental lithosphere

    Tim J. Wright;John R. Elliott;Hua Wang;Isabelle Ryder

  • Measuring large topographic change with InSAR: Lava thicknesses, extrusion rate and subsidence rate at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala

    S. K. Ebmeier;Juliet Biggs;T. A. Mather;J. R. Elliott

  • The 2011 MW 6.8 Burma earthquake: fault constraints provided by multiple SAR techniques

    Wanpeng Feng;Wanpeng Feng;Zhenhong Li;John R. Elliott;Yo Fukushima

  • Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential lidar: Examples from Japanese Mw ∼7 intraplate earthquakes

    Edwin Nissen;Tadashi Maruyama;J Ramon Arrowsmith;John R. Elliott

  • The 2011 Mw 7.1 Van (Eastern Turkey) earthquake

    J.R. Elliott;A.C. Copley;R. Holley;K. Scharer

  • Assessing the ability of Pleiades stereo imagery to determine height changes in earthquakes: A case study for the El Mayor-Cucapah epicentral area

    Yu Zhou;Barry Parsons;John R Elliott;Ivana Barisin

  • Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence

    R. J. Walters;L. C. Gregory;L. N. J. Wedmore;T. J. Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Tim J. Wright
Tim J. Wright University of Leeds
Andrew Hooper
Andrew Hooper University of Leeds
Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford
Pablo J. González
Pablo J. González Spanish National Research Council
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
Edwin Nissen
Edwin Nissen University of Victoria
Zhenhong Li
Zhenhong Li Chang'an University
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford

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