Applications of seismic moment tensor inversion in fast response to earthquakes

Acta Seismologica Sinica English Edition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-136

  Liu, Rui Feng ^a   Chen, Yun Tai ^a   Zhou, Gong Wei ^a   Tu, Yi Min ^a   Chen, Pei Shan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake monitoring; Fault plane solution; Inversion; Seismic moment tensor; Seismic source mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949961185     PISSN: 10009116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-999-0017-2     Document Type: Article

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