Near-field tsunami models with rapid earthquake source inversions from land- and ocean-based observations: The potential for forecast and warning

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5939-5955

  Melgar, Diego ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Tsunami early warning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FORECASTING METHOD; GPS; SEISMIC SOURCE; SENSOR; STRONG MOTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84891623656     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010506     Document Type: Article

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