Investigation on afterslip and steady state and transient rheology based on postseismic deformation and geoid change caused by the Sumatra 2004 earthquake

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Hoechner, Andreas ^a   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,b   Einarsson, Indridi ^a,c   Wang, Rongjiang ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

afterslip; earthquake; GPS; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; GAGES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RHEOLOGY; TIME SERIES; VISCOSITY; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

AFTERSLIP; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTH'S MANTLE; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LOCALIZED EFFECTS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MAXWELL MODELS; NEAR-FIELD; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; PRESSURE GAUGES; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; SATELLITE MISSION; SPACE-BASED; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE CREEP; SUMATRA; SUMATRA-ANDAMAN EARTHQUAKE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; RHEOLOGICAL MODELING; STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENTS;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; GEOID; GPS; GRACE; MANTLE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; SLIP; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79960677059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003450     Document Type: Article

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