Source model of the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile, Mw 8.4 earthquake based on teleseismic and tsunami data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 643-650

  Heidarzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Murotani, Satoko ^b   Satake, Kenji ^a   Ishibe, Takeo ^a   Gusman, Aditya Riadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chilean subduction zone; earthquake; Illapel earthquake of 16 September 2015; teleseismic body wave inversion; tsunami; tsunami modeling

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; TSUNAMIS;

ILLAPEL EARTHQUAKE OF 16 SEPTEMBER 2015; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SOURCE MODELING; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES; TSUNAMI MODELS; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHILE; COQUIMBO; MAULE;

EID: 84958037961     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067297     Document Type: Article

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