Contribution of satellite gravimetry to understanding seismic source processes of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Han, Shin Chan ^a,b   Sauber, Jeanne ^a   Riva, Riccardo ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; GRAVITY FIELD; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOWER CRUST; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEISMIC SOURCE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEODETIC DATUM; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84855404531     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049975     Document Type: Article

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