Improving the detection of tectonic transients in Japan by accounting for Earth’s deformation response to surface mass loading

Hilary R Martens, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, United States; University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Prof. Mark Simons, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Angelyn W Moore, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Susan E Owen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Luis A Rivera, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France