Rupture process of the 18 April 1906 California earthquake from near-field tsunami waveform inversion

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 832-845

  Lorito, Stefano ^a   Piatanesi, Alessio ^a   Lomax, Anthony ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Colette Van Dooren ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

BILATERAL RUPTURE; FAULT SEGMENTS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FORWARD MODELING; NORMAL FAULT; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; TIDE GAUGE; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 40849097370     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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