Elastic full-waveform inversion for earthquake source parameters

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-74

  Wu, Yafei ^a   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Source parameters; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EID: 0030485648     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb01535.x     Document Type: Article

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