A comprehensive relocation of earthquakes in Taiwan from 1991 to 2005

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1471-1481

  Wu, Yih Min ^a   Chang, Chien Hsin ^b   Zhao, Li ^c   Teng, Ta Liang ^c,e   Nakamura, Mamoru ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; RADAR STATIONS;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU (CWB); DATA SETS; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY (JMA); OFFSHORE EVENTS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; P-WAVE; PEAK ACCELERATION; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TAIWAN;

EID: 42949086381     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070166     Document Type: Article

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