Evidence for water-filled cracks in earthquake source regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Guoqing ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; ERROR ESTIMATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; MEDIAN VALUE; PRESENCE OF WATER; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TOMOGRAPHIC; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRACKING; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAULTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71949109407     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039098     Document Type: Article

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