Wide-scale detection of earthquake waveform doublets and further evidence for inner core super-rotation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 993-1006

  Zhang, Jian ^a,c   Richards, Paul G ^a,b   Schaff, David P ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomechanics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GEOMECHANICS; GROUND MOTION; INNER CORE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ANTARCTICA; ASIA; BUCARAMANGA; CANADA; CENTRAL ASIA; COLOMBIA; EURASIA; FIJI; KURIL ISLANDS; MELANESIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SANTANDER [COLOMBIA]; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS; TONGA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50649091376     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03856.x     Document Type: Article

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