Improvements of the maximum intersection method for 3D absolute earthquake locations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1764-1785

  Theunissen, Thomas ^a,c   Font, Yvonne ^b   Lallemand, Serge ^a,d,e   Gautier, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d LIA (Associated International Laboratory) ADEPT   (Taiwan)

^e LIA (Associated International Laboratory) ADEPT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAUX; CLEANING PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; GRID DISCRETIZATION; GRID NODE; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MAXIMUM INTERSECTION; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; MULTI-GRID ALGORITHMS; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; P-VELOCITY; RYUKYU SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC FEATURES; TOLERANCE VALUES; VELOCITY MODEL; VOLUME INTERSECTION;

EARTHQUAKES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; TRAVEL TIME;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OUTLIER; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

JAPAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

EID: 84865009949     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100311     Document Type: Article

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