Tsunami source of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Japan: Inversion analysis based on dispersive tsunami simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Saito, Tatsuhiko ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^b   Inazu, Daisuke ^b   Hino, Ryota ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; TSUNAMIS;

COSEISMIC SLIP DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSIVE WAVES; FAR-FIELD; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; INVERSION ANALYSIS; NEAR-FIELD; PEAK HEIGHT; PLATE BOUNDARIES; TSUNAMI SIMULATION; WAVE FORMS; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; SOURCE ESTIMATION; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

TSUNAMIS; EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEISMICITY; SLIP; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 80655128188     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049089     Document Type: Article

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