Source inversion of W phase: Speeding up seismic tsunami warning

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 222-238

  Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Rivera, Luis ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Early warning; Earthquake source observations; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tsunamis; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DECONVOLUTION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; OSCILLATION; P-WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SURFACE WAVE; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 53549105794     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03887.x     Document Type: Article

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