Imaging the fault zones of the 2000 western Tottori earthquake by a new inversion method to estimate three-dimensional distribution of the scattering coefficient

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Asano, Youichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coda envelope; Crustal heterogeneity; Fault zone

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; IMAGING METHOD;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOTTORI [CHUGOKU];

EID: 4644339346     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002761     Document Type: Article

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