Detecting low-frequency earthquakes within non-volcanic tremor in southern Taiwan triggered by the 2005 Mw8.6 Nias earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Tang, Chi Chia ^a,b   Peng, Zhigang ^b   Chao, Kevin ^b   Chen, Chau Huei ^a   Lin, Cheng Horng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATCHED FILTERS; SURFACE WAVES;

CENTRAL RANGES; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; DEPTH RANGE; LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; MOHO DEPTH; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SUMATRA;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT; FILTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MOHO; NIAS EARTHQUAKE 2005; SEISMICITY; SURFACE WAVE;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; TAIWAN;

EID: 77956239444     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043918     Document Type: Article

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