Broadscale postseismic gravity change following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and implication for deformation by viscoelastic relaxation and afterslip

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5797-5805

  Han, Shin Chan ^a   Sauber, Jeanne ^a   Pollitz, Fred ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITY CHANGES; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; RUPTURE; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84906017557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060905     Document Type: Article

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