Clues from joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Romano, F ^a   Piatanesi, A ^a   Lorito, S ^a   D'Agostino, N ^a   Hirata, K ^b   Atzori, S ^a   Yamazaki, Y ^c   Cocco, M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 84860446777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00385     Document Type: Article

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