Real-time inversion of GPS data for finite fault modeling and rapid hazard assessment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Crowell, Brendan W ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^a   Melgar, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS;

CALIFORNIA; CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; FAULT PLANES; FINITE FAULT MODELING; GPS DATA; GPS NETWORK; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOKKAIDO; INITIAL ESTIMATE; LOSS OF LIFE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME MODE; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SUMATRA; TSUNAMIGENIC POTENTIAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; FRACTURE INITIATION; GPS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MOMENT TENSOR; REAL TIME; TSUNAMI;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CHILE; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84862097145     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051318     Document Type: Article

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