Solid angles and the impact of receiver-array geometry on microseismic moment-tensor inversion

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Eaton, David W ^a   Forouhideh, Farshid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arrays; Microseismic; Sources

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; GEOMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMBER THEORY; SEISMOLOGY; TENSORS;

ARRAYS; GEOMETRICAL CONSIDERATIONS; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MICROSEISMIC; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE (S/N) RATIOS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARRAY; DATA INVERSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; FRACTURE ORIENTATION; GEOMETRY; MOMENT TENSOR; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857281233     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0077.1     Document Type: Article

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