Slip model for the 2011 M w 9.0 Sendai (Japan) earthquake and its M w 7.9 aftershock derived from GPS data

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 2941-2947

  Diao, Fa Qi ^a,b   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Ni, Si Dao ^a   Zheng, Yong ^a   Ge, Can ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

GPS data; great subduction zone earthquake; large aftershock; slip model inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052199797     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4643-4     Document Type: Article

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