Estimation of arrival-times in intense seismic sequences using a Master-Events methodology based on waveform similarity

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 889-917

  Kapetanidis, V ^a   Papadimitriou, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Seismicity and tectonics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; BEST FIT; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EPICENTRAL AREA; EVENT DETECTION; LOW ENERGIES; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; P- AND S-WAVES; REFERENCE STATIONS; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM COMPONENTS; WAVEFORM RECORDING; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY;

CORRELATION DETECTORS; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT GEOMETRY; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054696211     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05178.x     Document Type: Article

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