Distribution of seismic velocities and attenuation in the crust beneath the North Anatolian fault (Turkey) from local earthquake tomography

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 207-224

  Koulakov, I ^a,c   Bindi, D ^b   Parolai, S ^c   Grosser, H ^c   Milkereit, C ^c  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Volcanologia   (Italy)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GEODYNAMICAL FEATURES; HIGH VELOCITY; ITERATIVE INVERSION; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC PARAMETERS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STUDY AREAS; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TEMPORARY NETWORKS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EARTHQUAKES; TOMOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

AFTERSHOCK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 75649086540     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090105     Document Type: Article

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