Comparison Between Tsunami Signals Generated by Different Source Models and the Observed Data of the Illapel 2015 Earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1051-1061

  Calisto, Ignacia ^a   Miller, Matthew ^a   Constanzo, Iván ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

earthquake rupture; slip model distribution; Tsunami signal

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; TIDE GAGES;

COUPLING MODELING; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SIMULATED SIGNALS; SLIP MODEL; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; SATELLITE DATA; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TIDE GAUGE; TSUNAMI;

CHILE;

EID: 84962641883     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-016-1253-8     Document Type: Article

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