Coseismic gravity changes of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from satellite gravimetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Matsuo, Koji ^a   Heki, Kosuke ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATION; SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY;

BACK-ARC; CENTRAL CHILE; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; FOCAL REGIONS; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; REVERSE FAULTING; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARHQUAKE; GRACE; SATELLITE GEODESY; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

GRAVITATION; EARTHQUAKES;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC MOMENT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; CHILE; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIA; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 80053286933     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049018     Document Type: Article

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