Earthquake mechanisms from linear-programming inversion of seismic-wave amplitude ratios

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 972-980

  Julian, Bruce R ^a   Foulger, G R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; INVERSION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SEISMIC AMPLITUDE; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 0030431651     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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