A California statewide three-dimensional seismic velocity model from both absolute and differential times

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 225-240

  Lin, Guoqing ^a   Thurber, Clifford H ^a   Zhang, Haijiang ^a,b   Hauksson, Egill ^c   Shearer, Peter M ^d   Waldhauser, Felix ^e   Brocher, Thomas M ^f   Hardebeck, Jeanne ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAL COVERAGE; CALIFORNIA; DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH VELOCITY; LOCAL MODEL; MODEL-BASED; NEW MODEL; P-VELOCITY; REGIONAL MODEL; S-WAVE MODELS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SIERRA NEVADA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); UPPERMOST MANTLE; WAVEFORM MODELING;

FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CRUST; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; COAST RANGES; KLAMATH MOUNTAINS; MOUNT SHASTA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75649124919     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090028     Document Type: Article

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