Constraining shallow slip and tsunami excitation in megathrust ruptures using seismic and ocean acoustic waves recorded on ocean-bottom sensor networks

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 396, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-65

  Kozdon, Jeremy E ^a   Dunham, Eric M ^b,c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Early warning; Megathrust; Subduction zone; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TSUNAMIS; ALARM SYSTEMS; FAULT SLIPS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

DYNAMIC RUPTURES; EARLY WARNING; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; MEGATHRUST; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SEAFLOOR DEFORMATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TSUNAMI EARLY-WARNING SYSTEMS; OCEAN ACOUSTICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODETIC NETWORK; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; OCEAN WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC WAVE; THRUST;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84898915734     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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