Observation of far-field Mach waves generated by the 2001 Kokoxili supershear earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Vallee M ^a   Dunham, Eric M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; SURFACE WAVES;

AMPLITUDE RATIOS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; FAR-FIELD; FOCAL MECHANISM; GROUND MOTIONS; IN-PHASE; LOVE WAVE; MACH CONE; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC MOMENT; SUPERSHEAR; SUPERSHEAR EARTHQUAKES; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE 2001; LOVE WAVE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOGRAM; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84858641177     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050725     Document Type: Article

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