Capturing transient mass changes for the 2011 Tohoku tsunami on a spring gravity meter

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1622-1627

  Jolly, Arthur D ^a   Power, William ^a   Fournier, Nicolas ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY RESPONSE; MASS CHANGE; PEAK-TO-PEAK; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; TSUNAMI WAVES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE-FIELD SIMULATION; WHITE ISLAND;

EARTHQUAKES; GRAVIMETERS; TSUNAMIS;

GRAVITATION;

COASTAL ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

BAY OF PLENTY; HONSHU; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAURANGA HARBOUR; WHITE ISLAND;

EID: 84877272614     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120104     Document Type: Article

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