Modeling near-field tsunami observations to improve finite-fault slip models for the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Yamazaki, Y ^a   Lay, T ^b   Cheung, K F ^a   Yue, H ^b   Kanamori, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

GEODETIC OBSERVATION; HIGH RATE; MODEL MODIFICATION; NEAR-FIELD; P WAVES; RUPTURE MODELS; SLIP MODEL; TELESEISMIC; TIME HISTORY; TSUNAMI GENERATION; WAVE PROCESS; 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; MEGATHRUST; NEAR FIELDS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; TSUNAMI MODELS;

TSUNAMIS; FAULT SLIPS;

BUOY SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FAULT SLIP; GAUGE; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; P-WAVE; PRESSUREMETER; RUPTURE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC METHOD; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 80054721213     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049130     Document Type: Article

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