Moment tensor resolvability: Application to southwest Iberia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1235-1254

  Zahradník, Jiří ^a   Custódio, Susana ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; DATA ERRORS; DC SOURCES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; FREQUENCY RANGES; LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOMENT TENSORS; NETWORK DESIGN; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; STANDARD THEORIES; STATION LOCATION; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY BANDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TENSORS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSE PROBLEM; MOMENT TENSOR; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84862130145     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110216     Document Type: Article

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