Source parameters for the 28 april 2007 Mw 4.0 earthquake in Folkestone, United Kingdom

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1853-1867

  Ottemoller L ^a   Baptie, B ^a   Smith, N J P ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION FACTORS; BROAD-BAND DATA; BROADBAND STATION; COAL FIELDS; DEPTH PHASE; ENGLAND; ERROR ELLIPSE; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; LATERAL MOVEMENT; LEFT-LATERAL MOVEMENTS; MAINSHOCK; MICROTREMOR DATA; MOMENT TENSORS; NEAR-SURFACE; NORMAL COMPONENT; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SITE CONDITIONS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STRESS DROP; STRIKE-SLIP MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL BOUNDARY; TELESEISMIC; UNITED KINGDOM; VARISCAN;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; COAL DEPOSITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

AMPLIFICATION;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MICROTREMOR; PEAK ACCELERATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FOLKESTONE; KENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549088496     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080244     Document Type: Article

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