Tomography of the 1995 Kobe earthquake area: Comparison of finite-frequency and ray approaches

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 278-302

  Tong, Ping ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Yang, Dinghui ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Earthquake dynamics; Seismic tomography; Seismicity and tectonics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FLUID-FILLED; FRACTURED ROCK; FRESNEL; HIGH QUALITY; HYPOCENTRE; KOBE EARTHQUAKE; MAIN SHOCK; POISSON'S RATIO; RAY PATHS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SINGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; STUDY AREAS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHY METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HETEROGENEITY; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 80052970613     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05139.x     Document Type: Article

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