3‐D rotation of double‐couple earthquake sources

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 709-716

  Kagan, Y Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

double couple; earthquake source rotation; normalized quaternions

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE COUPLE; EARTHQUAKE; NORMALIZED QUATERNION; SOURCE ROTATION;

EID: 0026299319     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1991.tb06343.x     Document Type: Article

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