Splitting function measurements for Earth's longest period normal modes using recent large earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Deuss, Arwen ^a   Ritsema, Jeroen ^b   Van Heijst, Hendrik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICAL; CROSS-COUPLINGS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; NORMAL MODES; ROBUST MEASUREMENT; SEISMIC RECORDS; SUMATRA; TOMOGRAPHIC; WAVE SPECTRA;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; GRAVIMETRY; SEISMIC DATA; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE SPECTRUM;

CHILE; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 79951881165     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046115     Document Type: Article

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