Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure and precise earthquake relocation at Great Sitkin Volcano, Alaska

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2428-2448

  Pesicek, Jeremy D ^a   Thurber, Clifford H ^a   DeShon, Heather R ^a,c   Prejean, Stephanie G ^b   Zhang, Haijiang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKES; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LANDFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RELOCATION; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; BISPECTRUM; CONSISTENT; DISCRETE; EARTHQUAKE LOCATIONS; EVENT SEQUENCES; FEATURE ORIENTED; PRECISE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VOLCANIC TREMORS; WAVE VELOCITIES;

VOLCANOES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54949104354     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070213     Document Type: Article

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