Toward understanding slip inversion uncertainty and artifacts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Zahradnk, Ji ^a   Gallovi, Frantiek ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; FAULT; INVERSE PROBLEM; RUPTURE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLIP; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956821484     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007414     Document Type: Article

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