Trench-normal variation in observed seafloor displacements associated with the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Kido, M ^a   Osada, Y ^a   Fujimoto, H ^a   Hino, R ^a   Ito, Y ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE GAUGES; RUPTURE AREAS; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC SLIPS; SOURCE REGION;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACOUSTIC METHOD; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GAUGE; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84055188714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050057     Document Type: Article

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