Source model of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake estimated from tsunami waveforms and crustal deformation data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 341-344, Issue , 2012, Pages 234-242

  Gusman, Aditya Riadi ^a   Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a   Sakai, Shinichi ^b   Tsushima, Hiroaki ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPS data; Seafloor crustal deformation data; The 2011 Tohoku earthquake; Tsunami waveforms

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; GPS DATA; PLATE INTERFACES; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE MODELS; WAVE FORMS;

DEFORMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863828078     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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