Tests of relative earthquake location techniques using synthetic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Lin, Guoqing ^a   Shearer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEISMIC SOURCE;

EID: 21844455032     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003380     Document Type: Article

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