Stable inversions for complete moment tensors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 585-592

  Minson, Sarah E ^a   Dreger, Douglas S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake source observations; Inverse theory; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Theoretical seismology; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MOMENT TENSOR; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48249118791     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03797.x     Document Type: Article

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