Local earthquake tomography with flexible gridding

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 809-818

  Thurber, Clifford ^a   Eberhart Phillips, Donna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gridding; Inversion; Local earthquakes; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032859658     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(99)00007-2     Document Type: Article

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