Shallow seismic source parameter determination using intermediate-period surface wave amplitude spectra

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 601-615

  Fox, Benjamin D ^a,b   Selby, Neil D ^a   Heyburn, Ross ^a   Woodhouse, John H ^b  

^a AWE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; DEPTH RANGE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FOCAL MECHANISM; FREE OSCILLATION; GREAT CIRCLE; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LEAST SQUARE; LOGARITHMIC AMPLITUDE; PATH APPROXIMATION; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC MONITORING; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHALLOW SEISMIC; SOLUTION SPACE; SOURCE DETERMINATIONS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SURFACE WAVE AMPLITUDE; SURFACE WAVE EXCITATION; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES;

ESTIMATION; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SURFACE WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 84867403955     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05612.x     Document Type: Article

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