Application of real-time GPS to earthquake early warning

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Allen, Richard M ^a   Ziv, Alon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTHQUAKES; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; HIGH RATE; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; REAL-TIME GPS; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATIC OFFSETS; TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMS; WAVE FORMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETER; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GPS; S-WAVE; TSUNAMI; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052239723     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047947     Document Type: Article

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