On the nonuniqueness of the coupled origin time-velocity tomography problem

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1131-1139

  Menke, William ^a   Holmes, R Chadwick ^a   Xie, Jiakang ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; EARTHQUAKES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

HYPOCENTRAL PARAMETERS; TELESEIMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKE; ESTIMATION METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 33745470310     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050192     Document Type: Article

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