Instant tsunami early warning based on real-time GPS-Tohoku 2011 case study

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1285-1292

  Hoechner, A ^a   Ge, M ^a   Babeyko, A Y ^a   Sobolev, S V ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GPS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECISION; REAL TIME; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84879298339     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-1285-2013     Document Type: Article

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