Seismic moment tensor inversion using a 3-D structural model: Applications for the Australian region

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 949-964

  Hingee, Myall ^a   Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^b   Fichtner, Andreas ^b   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early warning; Earthquake source observations; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; 3D MODELS; ACTIVE REGIONS; ACTIVITY RESULTS; AUSTRALIA; BROADBAND SEISMOMETERS; COASTAL AREA; EARLY WARNING; EARTH STRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; FULL-WAVEFORMS; GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA; INVERSION METHODS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REAL TIME; RECORDING STATIONS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC MOMENT TENSOR; SENSITIVITY TESTS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; SYMMETRIC MODEL; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TIME DOMAIN; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; WAVE FORMS;

COASTAL ZONES; EARTHQUAKES; MODEL STRUCTURES; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MOMENT TENSOR; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78751482305     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04897.x     Document Type: Article

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