Evidence of viscoelastic deformation following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake revealed from seafloor geodetic observation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5789-5796

  Watanabe, Shun Ichi ^a   Sato, Mariko ^a   Fujita, Masayuki ^a   Ishikawa, Tadashi ^a   Yokota, Yusuke ^a   Ujihara, Naoto ^a   Asada, Akira ^b  

^a Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department Japan Coast Guard   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTICITY;

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; PACIFIC COASTS; SOURCE REGION; UPWARD MOVEMENT; VISCOELASTIC DEFORMATION; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RUPTURE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SUBSIDENCE; VISCOELASTICITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84906531495     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061134     Document Type: Article

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