Epicentral location based on Rayleigh wave Empirical Green's Functions from ambient seismic noise

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 869-884

  Barmin, M P ^a   Levshin, A L ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Ritzwoller, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; BODY WAVES; CALIFORNIA; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTH MODELS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; EPICENTRE; EVENT LOCATION; EVENT MECHANISM; GROUND TRUTH; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION ERRORS; LOCATION METHOD; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC STATION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; STANDARD PROCEDURES; TRAVEL TIME; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EARTHQUAKES; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

AMBIENT NOISE; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GREEN FUNCTION; INTERPOLATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751553094     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04879.x     Document Type: Article

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