Influence of the 2011 Mw9.0 Japan earthquake on groundwater levels in Chinese mainland

This paper gives a description of the co-seismic and post-seismic groundwater level changes induced in Chinese mainland by the 2011 Mw9.0 Japan earthquake, and the corresponding stress changes calculated on the assumption of linear elasticity. The result shows that the main types of changes were osc...

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Main Authors: Sun Xiaolong, Liu Yaowei, Ren Hongwei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2011-11-01
Series:Geodesy and Geodynamics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674984715302020