The effect of distribution of stations upon location error: Statistical tests based on the double-difference earthquake location algorithm and the bootstrap method

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bai, Ling ^a   Wu, Zhongliang ^b   Zhang, Tianzhong ^b   Kawasaki, Ichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Azimuthal gap of stations; Bootstrap method; Double difference earthquake location algorithm; Location error; Number of stations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; BOOTSTRAPPING; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947525497     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bf03353364     Document Type: Article

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