Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 722-743

  Robert Engdah, E ^a,b   Van Hilst, Rob Der ^a,b   Buland, Raymond ^a,b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DEPTH; HYPOCENTER; SEISMICITY;

EID: 0031753468     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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