Guided waves from sources outside faults: An indication for shallow fault zone structure?

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 2125-2137

  Fohrmann, Miko ^a   Igel, Heiner ^a   Jahnke, Gunnar ^a   Ben Zion, Yehuda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault zones; Seismic hazard; Trapped waves; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAPPED WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 6444234067     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2553-y     Document Type: Article

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