Shallow travel-time tomography below southern Mexico

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-291

  Huesca Pérez, Eduardo ^a   Husker, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Checker board test; Non volcanic tremor; Travel time seismic tomography; Vp Vs ratio

Indexed keywords

COCOS PLATE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84864482211     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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