Three-dimensional VP and VP/VS structure of the upper crust in the Erzincan basin (eastern Turkey)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kaypak, Bülent ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; NEOGENE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER CRUST;

ERZINCAN [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 51549113822     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004905     Document Type: Article

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