Application of 3D empirical travel times to routine event location

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-74

  Nicholson, T ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Lateral heterogeneity; Routine location; Seismic event location

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EMPIRICAL TRAVEL TIME APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE (ISC); LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; ROUTINE LOCATION; SEISMIC EVENT LOCATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; METHODOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748167832     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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