Coseismic velocity change in the rupture zone of the 2008 Mw 7.9 wenchuan earthquake observed from ambient seismic noise

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2539-2550

  Cheng, Xin ^a   Niu, Fenglin ^a   Wang, Baoshan ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; BEFORE AND AFTER; CORRELOGRAMS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; LABORATORY STUDIES; RAY PATHS; RAYLEIGH; REGION MATCH; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STRESS DROP; STRESS SENSITIVITY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TRAVEL SPEED; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY CHANGES; WAVE SIGNAL; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DROPS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; VELOCITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC ZONE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TRAVEL TIME;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 78149484047     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090329     Document Type: Article

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