Traveltime delay and initial phase reversal of distant tsunamis coupled with the self-gravitating elastic Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4287-4310

  Watada, Shingo ^a   Kusumoto, Satoshi ^a,b   Satake, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Dia Consultants Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

DART tsunami records from the 2010 Tohoku Oki earthquake and the 2010 Chilean earthquake; tsunami initial phase with reversed polarity; tsunami phase velocity measurements; tsunami precursor; tsunami propagation delay; tsunami waveform dispersion

Indexed keywords

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COMPRESSIBILITY; ELASTICITY; GEOPOTENTIAL; PHASE VELOCITY; SEAWATER; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHILE; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84902440902     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010841     Document Type: Article

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