A new regional hypocenter location method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 946-958

  Xie, Zhi ^a   Spencer, Terry W ^a   Rabinowitz, Philip D ^a   Fahlquist, Davis A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; GEIGER'S METHOD; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; HYPOCENTRE LOCATION; SLOWNESS DEVIATION;

EID: 0030431953     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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