A new technique for moment tensor inversion with applications to the 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake sequence

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 329-339

  Liu, Chao ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Xu, Lisheng ^a   Chen, Yuntai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Focal mechanism; Moment tensor inversion; Source time function; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149088506     PISSN: 02533782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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