Gravitational seismology retrieving Centroid-Moment-Tensor solution of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 183-194

  Cambiotti, Gabriele ^a   Sabadini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; GRACE gravity data inversion; Gravity change

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84877103178     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009555     Document Type: Article

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