Moment tensor inversion of the 2004 small-moderate size earthquakes in the Capital Region

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-239

  Xu, Lisheng ^a   Jiang, Changsheng ^a   Chen, Yuntai ^a   Li, Chunlai ^a   Zhang, Tianzhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Capital Kegion; Moment tensor inversion; Small moderate size earthquakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349868284     PISSN: 02533782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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