Large earthquakes and Earth rotation: The role of mantle relaxation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 911-914

  Soldati, Gaia ^a   Spada, Giorgio ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY; GEOPHYSICS;

ASTHENOSPHERIC VISCOSITY; EARTH ROTATION; GLOBAL SEISMICITY; MANTLE RELAXATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTH ROTATION; EARTHQUAKE; MANTLE PROCESS; POLAR WANDERING; RHEOLOGY;

ELASTIC RESPONSE; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MANTLE RELAXATION; MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTIONS; ROTATIONAL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SPHERICAL MODELS; STRESS DIFFUSION;

EID: 0033117645     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900144     Document Type: Article

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