Testing community velocity models for southern California using the ambient seismic field

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2694-2714

  Ma, Shuo ^a,b   Prieto, Germán A ^a   Beroza, Gregory C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; BROADBAND STATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTIONS; LOS ANGELES; SEISMIC FIELDS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TIME LAGS; VELOCITY MODELS; VERTICAL COMPONENTS; WAVEFORM SIMILARITIES;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND DATA; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; MODEL; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63049096346     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080947     Document Type: Article

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