The effects of data quality in local earthquake tomography: Application to the Alpine region

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Husen, Stephan ^a   Diehl, Tobias ^b   Kissling, Edi ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Institute of Geophysics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ACCURATE TIMING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTED ERRORS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTED NOISE; HIGH QUALITY DATA; LEVEL OF CONSISTENCIES; PHASE IDENTIFICATION; SOLUTION QUALITY; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84861200274     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3237117     Document Type: Article

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