Initial rupture of earthquakes in the 1995 Ridgecrest, California sequence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2437-2440

  Mori, Jim ^a,c   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; ESTIMATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; STANDARDS; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANELASTIC ATTENUATION; CALIFORNIA; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION; SMALL REGION; SOURCE REGION;

EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

INITIAL RUPTURE; STANDARD SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION;

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; MECHANISM RUPTURE; P WAVE; RIDGECREST EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE 1995; WAVE FORM;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0030235945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02491     Document Type: Article

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