Physical applications of GPS geodesy: A review

Y Bock, D Melgar - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

Tsunami occurrence 1900–2020: A global review, with examples from Indonesia

JA Reid, WD Mooney - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2023‏ - Springer
We present an overview of tsunami occurrences based on an analysis of a global database
of tsunamis for the period 1900–2020. We evaluate the geographic and statistical …

Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8. 2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy

BA Brooks, D Goldberg, J DeSanto, TL Ericksen… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
The shallower portions of subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's most hazardous
tsunamigenic earthquakes, yet understanding how and when they slip remains elusive …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction zone megathrust earthquakes

SL Bilek, T Lay - Geosphere, 2018‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's largest earthquakes, along with multitudes of
smaller events that contribute to plate convergence. An understanding of the faulting …

The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to 2014

T Lay - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015‏ - Elsevier
During the decade from mid-2004 to mid-2014 18 great (M w≥ 8.0) earthquakes occurred
globally (∼ 1.8 per year), compared to 71 from 1900 to mid-2004 (∼ 0.68 per year), yielding …

Localized fault slip to the trench in the 2010 Maule, Chile Mw = 8.8 earthquake from joint inversion of high‐rate GPS, teleseismic body waves, InSAR, campaign GPS …

H Yue, T Lay, L Rivera, C An, C Vigny… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 27 February 2010, Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake ruptured~ 500 km along the plate
boundary offshore central Chile between 34° S and 38.5° S. Establishing whether coseismic …

Rupture Model for the 29 July 2021 MW 8.2 Chignik, Alaska Earthquake Constrained by Seismic, Geodetic, and Tsunami Observations

L Ye, Y Bai, D Si, T Lay, KF Cheung… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
A great earthquake struck the Semidi segment of the plate boundary along the Alaska
Peninsula on 29 July 2021, re‐rupturing part of the 1938 rupture zone. The 2021 MW 8.2 …

Tsunami excitation in the outer wedge of global subduction zones

Q Qiu, S Barbot - Earth-science reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The world's most devastating local and ocean-wide tsunamis are generated by subduction
zone earthquakes, but the mechanisms for powerful seafloor uplift and tsunami generation …

A self‐consistent fault slip model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Y Yamazaki, KF Cheung, T Lay - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
The unprecedented geophysical and hydrographic data sets from the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami have facilitated numerous modeling and inversion analyses for a …

Bayesian inversion of finite‐fault earthquake slip model using geodetic data, solving for non‐planar fault geometry, variable slip, and data weighting

G Wei, K Chen, H Meng - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
A precise finite‐fault model including the fault geometry and slip distribution is essential to
understand the physics of an earthquake. However, the conventional linear inversion of …