Quasi real-time fault model estimation for near-field tsunami forecasting based on RTK-GPS analysis: Application to the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (M w 9.0)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ohta, Yusaku ^a   Kobayashi, Tatsuya ^a   Tsushima, Hiroaki ^b   Miura, Satoshi ^c   Hino, Ryota ^a   Takasu, Tomoji ^d   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a   Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Tachibana, Kenji ^a   Demachi, Tomotsugu ^a   Sato, Toshiya ^a   Ohzono, Mako ^e   Umino, Norihito ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT; FAULTING; FORECASTING METHOD; GPS; SEISMIC MOMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI;

CHUGOKU; HONSHU; JAPAN; OKI ISLANDS; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; SHIMANE; TOHOKU;

EID: 84863116503     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008750     Document Type: Article

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