Importance of horizontal seafloor motion on tsunami height for the 2011 Mw=9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 469-479

  Hooper, A ^a   Pietrzak, J ^b   Simons, W ^c   Cui, H ^b   Riva, R ^a   Naeije, M ^c   Terwisscha van Scheltinga, A ^d   Schrama, E ^c   Stelling, G ^b   Socquet, A ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UMR 7327   (France)

Author keywords

Earthquake; GPS; Pressure gauge; Slip; Tohoku; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC DATA; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; HORIZONTAL MOTION; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; JOINT INVERSION; MAXIMUM SLIP; NEAR-FIELD; OCEAN FLOOR; PLATE INTERFACES; PRESSURE DATA; PRESSURE GAUGES; REAL TIME; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC STUDIES; SLIP; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; TOHOKU; TSUNAMI INUNDATION; TSUNAMI WAVES; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WATER COLUMNS;

EARTHQUAKES; FLOODS; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRESSURE GAGES; TSUNAMIS;

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEAFLOOR; SLIP; SUBDUCTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT; WAVE HEIGHT;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84872314067     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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