Direct empirical estimation of arrival-time picking error from waveform cross-correlations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2749-2758

  von Seggern, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D-VELOCITY; ARRIVAL TIME; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; DATA ERRORS; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; GREAT BASIN; LEAST SQUARE; LOCAL SCALE; LOCATION MODELS; MODEL ERRORS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC PHASIS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; TIME PICKING ERRORS; WAVE FORMS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349876724     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080304     Document Type: Article

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