Collection of a reference event set for regional and teleseismic location calibration

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1528-1545

  Bondár, István ^a   Engdahl, E Robert ^b   Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Ghalib, Hafidh A A ^c   Hofstetter, Abraham ^d   Kirichenko, Victor ^a   Wagner, Robert ^c   Gupta, Indra ^c   Ekström, Göran ^e   Bergman, Eric ^f   Israelsson, Hans ^a   McLaughlin, Keith ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Multimax Inc   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Global Seismological Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

MANTLE; NETWORK OPERATORS; TELESEISMIC LOCATION; TRAVEL TIME PREDICTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; P-WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 4243106825     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003128     Document Type: Article

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