High-resolution 3D P-wave velocity model for the East Ventura-San Fernando Basin, California, and relocation of events in the northridge and San Fernando aftershock sequences

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2269-2280

  Pujol, Jose ^a   Mueller, Karl ^b   Shen, Peng ^c   Chitupolu, Vani ^d  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c TOTAL   (France)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCKS; GEODETIC FAULT PLANE; HIGH-VELOCITY BASEMENT BLOCK; MAINSHOCK FAULT PLANE; THRUST FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DATA INVERSION; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FERNANDO VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846074753     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050237     Document Type: Article

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