5Hz GPS seismology of the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: Estimating the earthquake focal mechanism

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1723-1732

  Zheng, Yong ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Xie, Zujun ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad band seismometers; Earthquake ground motions; Earthquake source observations

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EPICENTRE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS DATA; HIGH RATE; MAIN SHOCK; ME-XICO; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD; NOISE LEVELS; SEISMIC RECORDS; STRONG-MOTION; TELESEISMIC;

SEISMOGRAPHS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84865290184     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05576.x     Document Type: Article

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