Distortion of the apparent S-wave radiation pattern in the high-frequency wavefield: Tottori-Ken Seibu, Japan, earthquake of 2000

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 950-961

  Takemura, S ^a   Furumura, T ^a   Saito, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body waves; Computational seismology; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 67749113526     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04210.x     Document Type: Article

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