Post-seismic relaxation following the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on a compressible self-gravitating Earth

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 397-420

  Pollitz, Fred F ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b   Banerjee, Paramesh ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Asthenosphere; Normalmodes; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33749316454     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03018.x     Document Type: Article

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