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However, the source parameters, kinematics and relationships between these earthquakes are poorly known because of their moderately-sized magnitude and the sparse distribution of seismic stations in the region. We utilize interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Envisat satellite to determine the location, fault geometry and slip distribution of three large events of the sequence that occurred on 7 July 2003 (Ms 6.0), 27 March 2004 (Ms 6.2), and 3 July 2004 (Ms 5.1). The modeling results indicate that the 7 July 2003 event was a normal-faulting event with a right-lateral slip component, the 27 March 2004 earthquake was associated with a normal fault striking northeast\u2013southwest and dipping northwest with a moderately oblique right-lateral slip, and the 3 July 2004 event was caused by a normal fault. A calculation of the static stress changes on the fault planes demonstrates that the third earthquake may have been triggered by the previous ones.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8060516","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,20]],"date-time":"2016-06-20T12:51:28Z","timestamp":1466427088000},"page":"516","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Source Parameters of the 2003\u20132004 Bange Earthquake Sequence, Central Tibet, China, Estimated from InSAR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Lingyun","family":"Ji","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, 316 Xiying Rd., Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, 316 Xiying Rd., Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, 316 Xiying Rd., Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Chengsheng","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang\u2019an University, 126 Yanta Rd., Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"The China Earthquake Networks Center\u2019s (CENC) Catalogue. 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