Crustal velocity structure in Italy from analysis of regional seismic waveforms

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2024-2039

  Li, Hongyi ^a,b   Michelini, Alberto ^a   Zhu, Lupei ^c   Bernardi, Fabrizio ^a   Spada, Matteo ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b China University of Geosciences   (China)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GREEN FUNCTION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38349150383     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070071     Document Type: Article

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