CMT data inversion using a Bayesian information criterion to estimate seismogenic stress fields

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 674-685

  Terakawa, Toshiko ^a   Matsu'ura, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamics:seismotectonics; Fractures and faults; Inverse theory; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DATA INVERSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 38349178584     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03656.x     Document Type: Article

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