Monte Carlo slip inversion in the frequency domain: Application to the 1992 Nicaragua Slow Earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 913-916

  Ihmlé, Pierre F ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; FRICTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS; VELOCITY;

EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; MOMENT DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NON LINEAR INVERSION; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL COMPLEXITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEISMOLOGY;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NICARAGUAN EARTHQUAKE 1992; PLATE INTERFACE; SLIP INVERSION; SLOW EARTHQUAKE;

NICARAGUA;

FAULT; MOMENT RELEASE; MONTE CARLO SLIP INVERSION; PLATE INTERFACE; RAYLEIGH WAVES; RUPTURE VELOCITY; SLIP DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029666556     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00872     Document Type: Article

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