Coseismic slip of the 2010 Mw 8.8 Great Maule, Chile, earthquake quantified by the inversion of GRACE observations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 167-179

  Wang, Lei ^a,h   Shum, C K ^a   Simons, Frederik J ^b   Tassara, Andrés ^c   Erkan, Kamil ^a,i   Jekeli, Christopher ^a   Braun, Alexander ^d   Kuo, Chungyen ^e   Lee, Hyongki ^f   Yuan, Dah Ning ^g  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geodynamics; GRACE; Maule earthquake

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; COSEISMIC SLIPS; FAULT PLANES; GRACE; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LOCALIZATION ANALYSIS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TELESEISMIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEODYNAMICS;

FAULTING;

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; GEODYNAMICS; GRACE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 84859602693     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.044     Document Type: Article

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