Seismic location bias and uncertainty in the presence of correlated and non-Gaussian travel-time errors

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 172-193

  Bondár, István ^a,b   McLaughlin, Keith ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DETERIORATION; EARTHQUAKES; ERRORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MODEL STRUCTURES; TRELLIS CODES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COPULA THEORIES; CORRELATED MODELS; CORRELATION STRUCTURES; ERROR ELLIPSE; ERROR STRUCTURES; GROUND TRUTHS; LOCATION ALGORITHMS; LOCATION UNCERTAINTIES; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; NON-GAUSSIAN; ROBUST METHODS; SEISMIC LOCATIONS; TELESEISMIC; TIME CORRELATIONS; VARIOGRAM MODELS;

RELOCATION;

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC SOURCE; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 60749107439     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080922     Document Type: Article

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