First results from the Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3397-3400

  Laske, G ^a   Morgan, J Phipps ^a   Orcutt, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE GAGES; SEISMOLOGY;

TELESEISMIC INTERMEDIATE-PERIOD RAYLEIGH WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY; PHASE VELOCITY;

OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SWELL; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; INTERMEDIATE PERIODS; ISLAND CHAINS; LATERAL VELOCITIES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PILOT EXPERIMENT; SEISMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033570577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005401     Document Type: Article

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