3D modeling of fracture-induced shear-wave splitting in the southern California basin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1090-1100

  Nistala, Suresh ^a   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRACK PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKES; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

CRACK DENSITY; ISMOGRAMS; MULTICOMPONENT SEISMOGRAMS; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING;

TECTONICS;

S-WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744436307     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040225     Document Type: Article

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