Resolving fault plane ambiguity for small earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 493-501

  Chen, Po ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^b   Zhao, Li ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952575626     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04515.x     Document Type: Article

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