Shallow crustal structure from short-period Rayleigh-wave dispersion data in southwestern Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 370-382

  Chung, Jen Kuang ^a   Yeh, Yeong Tein ^b  

^a CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TAPU EARTHQUAKE 1993; WAVE DISPERSION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0030840259     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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