Locating nonvolcanic tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault using a station-pair double-difference location method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Haijiang ^a   Nadeau, Robert M ^b   Toksoz, M Nafi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

CALIFORNIA; GRID SEARCH; IMPULSIVE WAVES; LOCATION METHOD; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PERIODIC PATTERN; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STATION CORRECTION; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY MODEL; WAVE FORMS;

LOCATION;

CORRELATION; PLATE TECTONICS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC ZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954677454     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043577     Document Type: Article

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