Temporal changes of seismic velocity around the Wenchuan earthquake fault zone from ambient seismic noise correlation

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 853-863

  Liu, Zhi Kun ^a   Huang, Jin Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient noise correlation; Empirical green function; Seismic velocity change; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78649488210     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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