Seismic excitation of the polar motion, 1977-1993

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 407-419

  Chao, Benjamin Fong ^a   Gross, Richard S ^b   Han, Yan Ben ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Earth rotation; Earthquake; Polar motion

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; EARTHQUAKE; POLAR MOTION; SEISMIC EXCITATION;

EID: 0029729671     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00874727     Document Type: Article

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