Gravity satellite GRACE detects coseismic gravity changes caused by 2010 Chile Mw8.8 earthquake

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1745-1749

  Zhou, Xin ^a   Sun, Wen Ke ^a   Fu, Guang Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chile earthquake; Coseismic gravity changes; Dislocation theory; GRACE

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004;

EID: 80051762362     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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