Measurements of spectral similarity for microearthquakes in western Nagano, Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Venkataranman, Anupama ^a,b   Beroza, Gregory C ^a   Ide, Satoshi ^c   Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^d   Ito, Hisao ^e   Iio, Yoshihisa ^f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROEARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 33646337907     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003834     Document Type: Article

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