Seismic structure in and around the source area of the 2004 mid-Niigata, Japan, earthquake: 3-D waveform modelling based on local tomography images

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-160

  Tajima, Reiko ^a   Tajima, Fumiko ^a   Kato, Aitaro ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body waves; Computational seismology; Earthquake dynamics; Seismic tomography; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 63049135460     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04042.x     Document Type: Article

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