Northwest Pacific fundamental mode Rayleigh-wave group velocity and its relationship with tectonic structures

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2125-2135

  Mishra, Om Prakash ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Singh, Deo Datta ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EARTHQUAKES; MAPS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES;

DIGITAL BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; GROUP VELOCITY; QUASI-CONTINENTAL OCEANIC TRANSITIONAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITIES; TECTONIC STRUCTURES;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 31544480384     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030201     Document Type: Article

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