Monitoring the Earthquake source process in North America

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2609-2625

  Herrmann, R B ^a   Benz, H ^b   Ammon, C J ^c  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; BROADBAND STATION; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; DATA QUALITY; EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; INFORMATION CENTER; LARGE REGIONS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOMENT TENSORS; PASS BANDS; RAPID DETERMINATION; RESPONSE SYSTEMS; SEISMIC MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC STATION; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TECTONIC PLATES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DATA QUALITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MOMENT TENSOR; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONIC PLATE; THRESHOLD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 83255187424     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110095     Document Type: Article

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