Discrimination of the fault plane by waveform modeling: A case study for moderate-sized earthquakes in Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1825-1840

  Örgülü, Gonca ^a   Delouis, Bertrand ^b   Huang, Bor Shouh ^a   Legrand, Denis ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FAULT PLANE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SEISMOTECTONIC; WAVEFORM MODELING;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRONG MOTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 28144461760     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040230     Document Type: Article

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