Influence of near-surface volcanic structure on long-period seismic signals and on moment tensor inversions: Simulated examples from Mount Etna

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Bean, Christopher ^a   Lokmer, Ivan ^a   O'Brien, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMICITY; SIMULATION; WAVE FIELD; WAVELENGTH;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 55949108505     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005468     Document Type: Article

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