Attenuation Tomography of the Yellow Sea/Korean Peninsula from Coda-source normalized and direct Lg Amplitudes

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1163-1170

  Ford, Sean R ^a   Phillips, William S ^b   Walter, William R ^a   Pasyanos, Michael E ^a   Mayeda, Kevin ^c   Dreger, Douglas S ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

^d Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MAPS; ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; BOHAI BAY BASIN; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; PATH ATTENUATION; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SOURCE TERMS; SPECTRAL CORRECTION; TOMOGRAPHY METHODS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE; CODA; CORRELATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOHAI BAY; CHINA; KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 77957749372     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-009-0023-2     Document Type: Article

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