Joint inversion of gravity and arrival time data from Parkfield: New constraints on structure and hypocenter locations near the SAFOD drill site

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Roecker, S ^a   Thurber, C ^b   McPhee, D ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEISMOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BEST-FIT ARRIVAL TIME MODEL; DATASETS; SEISMIC ZONES;

ELASTIC WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; ELASTIC WAVE; GRAVITY SURVEY; MODELING; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; JOINT INVERSION; LARGE DATASETS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SURFACE TRACES;

EID: 6044257846     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019396     Document Type: Article

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