Simultaneous inversion for local earthquake hypocentres, station corrections and 1-D velocity model of the Jamaican crust

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 229-240

  Wiggins Grandison, Margaret D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Crustal structure; Inversion; Jamaica; Seismicity; Velocity structure

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 3242718866     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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