Analysis of the far-field crustal displacements caused by the 2011 Great Tohoku earthquake inferred from continuous GPS observations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-86

  Shestakov, Nikolay V ^a,i   Takahashi, Hiroaki ^b   Ohzono, Mako ^b   Prytkov, Alexander S ^c   Bykov, Victor G ^d   Gerasimenko, Mikhail D ^e   Luneva, Margarita N ^d   Gerasimov, Grigory N ^e   Kolomiets, Andrey G ^e   Bormotov, Vladimir A ^d   Vasilenko, Nikolay F ^c   Baek, Jeongho ^f,g   Park, Pil Ho ^f   Serov, Mikhail A ^h  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d KOSYGIN INSTITUTE OF TECTONICS AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^f Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^g University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND NATURE MANAGEMENT   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; Coseismic and postseismic displacements; Far field data; GPS; Rectangular fault model

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; COSEISMIC AND POSTSEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FAR-FIELD; FAR-FIELD DATA; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT MODEL; GPS DATA; NEAR-FIELD; OFFSET VALUES; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SAKHALIN ISLAND; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENT; THRUST SLIP; TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMS;

DEFORMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

EID: 84856737293     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

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