A detailed source model for the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake reconciling geodesy, seismology, and tsunami records

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7636-7653

  Bletery, Quentin ^a   Sladen, Anthony ^a   Delouis, Bertrand ^a   Vallée, Martin ^b   Nocquet, Jean Mathieu ^a   Rolland, Lucie ^a,c   Jiang, Junle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODESY; GPS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84915748889     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011261     Document Type: Article

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