Detailed waveform inversion for moment tensors of M ∼ 4 events: Examples from the Corinth Gulf, Greece

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2756-2771

  Zahradnik, Jiri ^a   Jansky, Jaromir ^a   Plicka, Vladimir ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LOCATION; TENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BAND PASS; DATA PROBLEMS; EIGEN VALUES; FOCAL MECHANISMS; GRID SEARCHES; INSTRUMENTAL DATUM; LARGE AMPLITUDES; LOCAL NETWORKS; LOCATION ERRORS; MOMENT TENSORS; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS; RAPID VARIATIONS; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSIONS;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSION TECTONICS; MOMENT TENSOR; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CORINTH [PELOPONNISOS]; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PELOPONNISOS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63049131884     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080124     Document Type: Article

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