Systematic determination of earthquake rupture directivity and fault planes from analysis of long-period P-wave spectra

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-62

  Warren, Linda M ^a,b   Shearer, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep earthquakes; Directivity; Earthquake rupture; Earthquake source parameters; Faultplanes; P waves

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; P-WAVE; SEISMOGRAM;

EID: 33645999396     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02769.x     Document Type: Article

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