Geodetic observations detecting coseismic displacements and gravity changes caused by the Mw = 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Xin ^a   Sun, Wenke ^a   Zhao, Bin ^b,c   Fu, Guangyu ^b   Dong, Jie ^a   Nie, Zhaosheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DETECTION METHOD; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEODETIC NETWORK; GEOID; GPS; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SLIP RATE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 84861114161     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008849     Document Type: Article

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