Source mechanism of the 2006 Mw5.1 Wen'an Earthquake determined from a joint inversion of local and teleseismic broadband waveform data

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-130

  Huang, Jian Ping ^a   Ni, Si Dao ^a   Fu, Rong Shan ^a   Niu, Feng Lin ^b   Shao, Zhi Gang ^c   Zheng, Yong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aftershocks distribution; Cut and paste method; Grid search method; Source mechanism; Waveform modeling method

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; AZIMUTH; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67649259231     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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