Joint focal mechanism determination with source-region station corrections using short-period body-wave amplitude data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 373-383

  Nakamura, Ayako ^a   Horiuchi, Shigeki ^b   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 0032766106     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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