Source parameters of moderate-sized earthquakes in the tien Shan, central Asia from regional moment tensor inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3181-3184

  Ghose, Sujoy ^a   Hamburger, Michael W ^a   Ammon, Charles J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DEFORMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMOLOGY; TENSORS; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKE SOURCES; ACTIVE DEFORMATION; BOUNDING FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; REVERSE FAULTING; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKE; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA;

EID: 0032529780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02362     Document Type: Article

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