Double-difference tomography: The method and its application to the Hayward Fault, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1875-1889

  Zhang, Haijiang ^a   Thurber, Clifford H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

DOUBLE DIFFERENCE (DD) SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0442297420     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020190     Document Type: Article

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