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Journal: Geophysical Research Letter  2015 No.1  Share to Sinaweibo  Share to QQweibo  Share to Facebook  Share to Twitter    clicks:648   
Title:
Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw9.0) inferred from inland GPS and seafloor GPS/Acoustic data
Author: Shuji Yamagiwa, Shin'ichi Miyazaki, Kazuro Hirahara andYukitoshi Fukahata
Adress: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Abstract:

We simultaneously estimate 2.5 years of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation, as well as coseismic slip, for the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Displacements at inland GPS and seafloor GPS/Acoustic stations are inverted using viscoelastic Green's functions for a model with an upper elastic layer and lower viscoelastic substrate. The result shows that afterslip is isolated from the rupture area and possibly asperities of historical earthquakes and has almost decayed by 10 September 2013, 2.5 years after the main shock. The inversion result also suggests that observed landward postseismic displacements at the seafloor GPS/Acoustic stations are caused by the viscoelastic relaxation, whereas trenchward displacements at inland stations are mainly an elastic response to afterslip.

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