The 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake: Joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 523-532

  Johnson, Jean M ^a   Satake, Kenji ^a,d   Holdahl, Sanford R ^b   Sauber, Jeanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC DATA; INVERSION; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND EARTHQUAKE 1964; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TSUNAMI; TSUNAMI WAVEFORMS;

USA, ALASKA, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND;

EID: 0029773699     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb02806     Document Type: Article

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