High-rate coseismic displacements from tightly integrated processing of raw GPS and accelerometer data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 612-624

  Li, Xingxing ^a,b   Ge, Maorong ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a,c   Wang, Rongjiang ^a   Guo, Bofeng ^b   Klotz, Jürgen ^a   Wickert, Jens ^a   Schuh, Harald ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Early warning; Earthquake ground motions; Satellite geodesy; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER DATA; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; PHASE AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; SATELLITE GEODESY; STRONG MOTION DATUM; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; SENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELEROMETER; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GEODESY; GPS; GROUND MOTION; STRONG MOTION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84885810505     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt249     Document Type: Article

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