Fault parameter constraints using relocated earthquakes: A validation of first-motion focal-mechanism data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1140-1158

  Kilb, Debi ^a   Hardebeck, Jeanne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT PLANE UNCERTAINTY (FPU); FIRST-MOTION FOCAL-MECHANISM DATA; MECHANISM STABILITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL VARIATIONS; STATION DISTRIBUTION RATIO (STDR);

EARTHQUAKES;

FOCAL MECHANISM; MICROEARTHQUAKE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 33745467337     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040239     Document Type: Article

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