Unusual microseisms seen in the reelfoot fault zone, Northern Tennessee, from a reflection experiment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 377-383

  Langston, Charles A ^a   Rieger, Duayne M ^a   Magnani, Maria Beatrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT FREQUENCY; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTIONS; LONG TERM MONITORING; NATURAL EVENTS; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONES; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; P WAVES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT DETECTION;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; MICROTREMOR; P-WAVE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75649135890     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090117     Document Type: Article

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