Real-time centroid moment tensor determination for large earthquakes from local and regional displacement records

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 703-718

  Melgar, Diego ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^a   Crowell, Brendan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early warning; Earthquake source observations; Inverse theory; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; CMT SOLUTIONS; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; FAULT CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH RATE; INVERSE THEORY; MOMENT TENSORS; MULTIPLE INVERSION; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; REAL-TIME MODE; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEISMIC METHODS; WAVE FORMS;

ALGORITHMS; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OPEN SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DISPLACEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEODESY; GPS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC SOURCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855440210     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05297.x     Document Type: Article

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