A new trigger criterion for improved real-time performance of onsite earthquake early warning in Southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 897-905

  Bose M ^a   Hauksson, E ^a   Solanki, K ^a   Kanamori, Hiro ^a   Wu, Y M ^b   Heaton, T H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDES; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; HIGH-PASS; MEAN VALUES; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC SENSOR; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TIME PERIODS; TRIGGER THRESHOLD; TWO PARAMETER; WAVEFORM DATA;

ALGORITHMS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; SEISMIC WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK ACCELERATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649121376     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080034     Document Type: Article

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