Lateral variations of shallow shear-velocity structure in southwestern Taiwan inferred from short-period Rayleigh waves

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 349-354

  Hwang, Ruey Der ^a,b   Yu, Guey Kuen ^b   Chang, Wen Yen ^c,d   Chang, Jo Pan ^a  

^a HSING KUO UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

^b VAN NUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c National Science Council   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Group velocity; Lateral velocity variation; Short period Rayleigh waves

Indexed keywords

RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 20644472459     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351768     Document Type: Article

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