Rupture processes of large deep-focus earthquakes from inversion of moment rate functions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B1, 1999, Pages 863-894

  Antolik, Michael ^a,b   Dreger, Douglas ^a   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAILURE MECHANISM; SEISMIC DATA; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 0033540343     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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