Slip distribution of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake derived from joint inversion of GPS, InSAR and seafloor GPS/acoustic measurements

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-136

  Wang, Chisheng ^a   Ding, Xiaoli ^a   Shan, Xinjian ^b   Zhang, Lei ^a   Jiang, Mi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fault slip; Joint inversion; Tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; JOINT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR; SHEAR MODULUS; SLIP RATE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865098889     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.06.019     Document Type: Article

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