A new method for determining first-motion focal mechanisms

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2264-2276

  Hardebeck, Jeanne L ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FOCAL MECHANISMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; P-WAVE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 0036704545     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010200     Document Type: Article

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