Determining SAFOD area microearthquake locations solely with the Pilot Hole seismic array data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Oye, Volker ^a   Chavarria, J Andres ^b   Malin, Peter E ^b  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKES; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBSERVATORIES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC NETWORK (HRSN); MICROEARTHQUAKES; PILOT HOLE (PH);

GEOPHYSICS; LOCATION;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; MICROTREMOR; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC METHOD;

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; LOCATION UNCERTAINTY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; THREE COMPONENT; VELOCITY MODEL;

EID: 6044250185     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019403     Document Type: Article

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