Short-wavelength crustal heterogeneities in the Nikko area, Central Japan, revealed from the three-component seismogram envelope analysis

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 63-73

  Yoshimoto, Kazuo ^a   Sato, Haruo ^a   Ohtake, Masakazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Seismogram envelope; Short wavelength heterogeneity; Synthetic envelope; Volcano

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006471871     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00062-9     Document Type: Article

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