Improving automatic location procedure by waveform similarity analysis: An application in the South Western Alps (Italy)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-29

  Massa, M ^a   Ferretti, G ^b   Spallarossa, D ^b   Eva, C ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic location procedure; Cross correlation methodology; South Western Alps seismicity; Waveform similarity analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC LOCATION PROCEDURE; CROSS-CORRELATION METHODOLOGY; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 30744458820     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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