Spectral inversion of Lg from earthquakes: A modified method with applications to the 1995, western Texas earthquake sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1525-1537

  Xie, Jiakang ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SPECTRA;

EID: 0032410454     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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