Earthquake source parameters determined by the SAFOD Pilot Hole seismic array

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^a   Ellsworth, William L ^b   Prejean, Stephanie G ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMOLOGY; SENSORS; TECTONICS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GEOPHYSICS;

DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISOMOGRAMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEEP DRILLING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DIFFERENCE OPERATORS; DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 6044242059     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019420     Document Type: Article

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