Enhanced detection capability of non-volcanic tremor using a 3-level vertical seismic array network, VA-net, in southwest Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^a   Takeda, Naoto ^a   Kuwahara, Yasuto ^a   Koizumi, Naoji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

APPARENT VELOCITY; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; DETECTION CAPABILITY; FUNCTION OF TIME; LOW FREQUENCY TREMORS; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SEISMIC SIGNALS; SEMBLANCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL ARRAY RECORDS; VERTICAL SEISMIC ARRAY; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARRAY; CORRELATION; DETECTION METHOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SIGNAL; VIBRATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 80054973164     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049071     Document Type: Article

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