Focal mechanism determination and identification of the fault plane of earthquakes using only one or two near-source seismic recordings

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1558-1574

  Delouis, Bertrand ^c   Legrand, Denis ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Maison Franco Japonaise   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMICITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033509448     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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