Automatic measurement of shear wave splitting and applications to time varying anisotropy at Mount Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Savage, M K ^a   Wessel, A ^a   Teanby, N A ^b   Hurst, A W ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; VOLCANO; WAVE SPLITTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MOUNT RUAPEHU; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 78650928148     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007722     Document Type: Article

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