Real-time, reliable magnitudes for large earthquakes from 1 Hz GPS precise point positioning: The 2011 Tohoku-Oki (Japan) earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Wright, Tim J ^a   Houlié, Nicolas ^a   Hildyard, Mark ^a   Iwabuchi, Tetsuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GPS Solutions Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TSUNAMIS;

DENSE NETWORK; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS DATA; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PRECISE POINT POSITIONING; REAL-TIME MODE; SEISMIC MOMENT; TSUNAMI FORECAST;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; DEGLACIATION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORECASTING METHOD; GPS; POSITIONING; REAL TIME; SEISMIC MOMENT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

EID: 84862905655     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051894     Document Type: Article

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