Determination of earthquake focal depths and source time functions in central Asia using teleseismic P waveforms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Chu, Risheng ^a,b   Zhu, Lupei ^b   Helmberger, Don V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS;

CENTRAL ASIA; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FOCAL DEPTH; GEOTHERMS; LOWER CRUST; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TELESEISMIC P WAVEFORMS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME SEPARATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DECONVOLUTION; DUCTILITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; LOWER CRUST; P-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 71949123204     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039494     Document Type: Article

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