The mechanism of postseismic deformation triggered by the 2006-2007 great Kuril earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kogan, Mikhail G ^a   Vasilenko, Nikolay F ^b   Frolov, Dmitry I ^c   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^d   Steblov, Grigory M ^e,f   Levin, Boris W ^b   Prytkov, Alexandr S ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^f RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; VISCOSITY;

GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GPS; MAGNITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; UPLIFT; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 79953173208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046855     Document Type: Article

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