Determination of regional earthquake source parameters in wavelet domain

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-305

  Hao, Jin Lai ^a   Yao, Zhen Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

focal mechanism; regional earthquake; wavelet domain inversion method

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; FOCAL MECHANISM; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HARVARD; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TIME DOMAIN; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN;

EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE WAVES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856209604     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4341-8     Document Type: Article

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