Co-seismic Earth’s rotation change caused by the 2012 Sumatra earthquake

Earthquakes heavily deform the crust in the vicinity of the fault, which leads to mass redistribution in the earth interior. Then it will produce the change of the Earth’s rotation (polar motion and length of day) due to the change of Earth inertial moment. This paper adopts the elastic dislocation...

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Main Authors: Xu Changyi, Sun Wenke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2012-11-01
Series:Geodesy and Geodynamics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674984715301348

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