Frequency sensitive moment tensor inversion for light to moderate magnitude earthquakes in eastern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Barth, Andreas ^a,b   Wenzel, F ^b   Giardini, D ^c  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; SEISMIC WAVES; TENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MOMENT TENSORS; SEISMIC STATIONS; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY;

AFRICA;

EID: 34948891045     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030359     Document Type: Article

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