Overlapping post-seismic deformation processes: Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 2011Mw 9.0 tohoku (Japan) earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 218-229

  Diao, Faqi ^a   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Wang, Rongjiang ^b   Zheng, Yong ^a   Walter, Thomas R ^b   Weng, Huihui ^c   Li, Jun ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Elasticity and anelasticity; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Satellite geodesy; Subduction zone processes; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ELASTICITY AND ANELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY: CRUST AND LITHOSPHERES; SATELLITE GEODESY; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESS; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

DEFORMATION;

AFTERSHOCK; ANELASTICITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODESY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRAIN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; VISCOELASTICITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84890887404     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt376     Document Type: Article

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