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The effect of earthquakes on the ERP during 1977–1985

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Richard S. Gross
Richard S. Gross*
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Abstract

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The effect on the Earth Rotation Parameters (ERP) of all the large earthquakes that occurred during 1977–1985 is evaluated. It is found that they cannot have caused the variations observed in the ERP during this time period.

Type
VI. Causes of Variations in Earth Rotation Parameters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 128: Earth's Rotation and Reference Frames for Geodesy and Geodynamics , 1988 , pp. 399 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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