Regional travel-time uncertainty and seismic location improvement using a three-dimensional a priori velocity model

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 804-825

  Flanagan, Megan P ^a   Myers, Stephen C ^a   Koper, Keith D ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; ERRORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EPICENTER; SEISMIC LOCATION IMPROVEMENT; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TRAVEL TIME;

AFRICA; EURASIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 34347253050     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060079     Document Type: Article

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