Determination of the isotropic component of deep focus earthquakes by inversion of normal-mode data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 515-528

  Hara, Tatsuhiko ^a   Kuge, Keiko ^b   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep focus earthquakes; Earthquake source mechanism; Global seismology; Inversion; Long period; Normal modes

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; INVERSION; SOURCE MECHANISM;

EID: 0030423946     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04737.x     Document Type: Article

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