A source model for the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake (M w=9.1) from inversion of GRACE gravity data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-79

  Cambiotti, G ^a   Sabadini, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; GRACE data inversion; Gravity change; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTH MODELS; FAULT MODEL; FAULT PLANES; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; JAPAN SEA; LEVEL 2; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LONG WAVELENGTH; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; OFF-SHORE; PACIFIC OCEAN; RAKE ANGLE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE MODELS; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; POLES; SEA LEVEL;

FAULT SLIPS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; GRACE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MODELING; MOHO; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 84862269642     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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