Modeling the effect of San Andreas fault structure on receiver functions using elastic 3D finite difference

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1608-1622

  Hammer, John K ^a   Langston, Charles A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; P WAVE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC DATA; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0030428382     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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