Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation model inferred from the large-scale post-seismic deformation following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake (Chile)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1455-1472

  Klein, E ^a   Fleitout, L ^a   Vigny, C ^a   Garaud, J D ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Rheology: mantle; Satellite geodesy; Seismic cycle; South America; Subduction zone processes; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969981512     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw086     Document Type: Article

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