Investigation of the inner-outer core boundary structure from the seismograms of a deep earthquake recorded by a regional seismic array

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-212

  Huang, Bor Shouh ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

DEEP EARTHQUAKES; DIFFRACTION WAVES; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SYMMETRIC MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES;

CORE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE; INNER CORE/OUTER CORE BOUNDARY; PKP WAVE; SEISMOGRAM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029730857     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00087     Document Type: Article

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