Background Love and Rayleigh waves simultaneously generated at the Pacific Ocean floors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Nishida, Kiwamu ^a   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Obara, Kazushige ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; FLOORS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES;

ARRAY ANALYSES; DEEP OCEANS; EXCITATION MECHANISMS; EXCITATION SOURCES; FREE OSCILLATIONS; INFRAGRAVITY WAVES; LOVE WAVES; PACIFIC OCEANS; SHEAR TRACTIONS; VERTICAL PRESSURES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

AZIMUTH; GRAVITY WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; LOVE WAVE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TILT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 56549105530     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034753     Document Type: Article

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