Geodetic evidence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 759-764

  Ohzono, Mako ^a,b   Ohta, Yusaku ^a   Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Miura, Satoshi ^a,c   Muto, Jun ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geodetic observation; Inland earthquake; Postseismic deformation; Viscoelastic response

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEODESY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UPPER CRUST; VISCOELASTICITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84876241617     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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