Rapid postseismic relaxation after the great 2006-2007 Kuril earthquakes from GPS observations in 2007-2011

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3691-3706

  Kogan, Mikhail G ^a   Vasilenko, Nikolay F ^b   Frolov, Dmitry I ^c   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^d   Steblov, Grigory M ^e,f   Prytkov, Alexandr S ^b   Ekström, Göran ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^f RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

GPS; Kurils; Postseismic; Rheology; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GPS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POWER LAW; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; STRAIN RATE; STRONG MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 84882746506     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50245     Document Type: Article

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