Rupture directivity characteristics of the 2003 big bear sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1089-1106

  Tan, Ying ^a   Helmberger, Don ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE INFORMATION; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; FAULT DIMENSION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT LENGTH; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORWARD MODELING; GRID SEARCH; MAINSHOCK; P- AND S-WAVES; RADIATION PATTERNS; RISETIMES; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; RUPTURE SPEED; RUPTURE TIME; SOURCE MODELS; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRESS DROP; THREE-COMPONENT; WAVE FORMS;

CONVOLUTION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORWARD MODELING; GREEN FUNCTION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE;

EID: 77952637240     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090074     Document Type: Article

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