Centroid-moment tensor inversions using high-rate GPS waveforms

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 257-270

  O'Toole, Thomas B ^a   Valentine, Andrew P ^b   Woodhouse, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Early warning; Earthquake ground motions; Earthquake source observations; Satellite geodesy; Theoretical seismology

Indexed keywords

CMT SOLUTIONS; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; FORWARD MODELS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GPS DATA; HIGH RATE; INVERSION METHODS; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD EARTHQUAKES; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVEFIELDS; SOURCE MODELS; TELESEISMIC; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM OBSERVATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; TENSORS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DATA INVERSION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GEODESY; GPS; GROUND MOTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84866419401     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05608.x     Document Type: Article

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