Seismic focusing by a single planar fracture

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Oliger, A ^a   Nolte, D D ^a   Pyrak Nolte, Laura J ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUP DELAY; TIME DELAY;

SEISMIC LENS; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; FRESNEL ZONE PLATE; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; RADIAL GRADIENT; SEISMIC ENERGY; SPECIFIC STIFFNESS; TRANSMISSION AMPLITUDE; WAVE REFRACTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; FRACTURE; SEISMICITY; STRESS CHANGE;

EID: 0041699954     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016264     Document Type: Article

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