Grid-search event location with non-Gaussian error models

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-66

  Rodi, William ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid search; ISC; ISC location workshop; IWREF data base; Seismic event location

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GRID-SEARCH; INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE (ISC); LOCATION ALGORITHM; NON-GAUSSIAN ERROR MODELS; SEISMIC EVENT LOCATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 33748159148     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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