Low-frequency properties of intermediate-focus earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2434-2448

  Richardson, Eliza ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; RADIATION; SURFACE WAVES;

FOCAL MECHANISMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 0036704543     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010193     Document Type: Article

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