Comparison of earthquake source models for the 2011 Tohoku event using tsunami simulations and near-field observations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1256-1274

  MacInnes, Breanyn T ^a,c   Gusman, Aditya Riadi ^a   LeVeque, Randall J ^b   Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; GRID RESOLUTION; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH GROUPS; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; TSUNAMI MODELS; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; MODELING; SEISMIC SOURCE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877293443     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120121     Document Type: Article

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