The 2009 L'Aquila M W6.3 earthquake: A new technique to locate the hypocentre in the joint inversion of earthquake rupture process

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1417-1426

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Feng, Wanpeng ^a,b   Chen, Yuntai ^a   Xu, Lisheng ^a   Li, Zhenhong ^b   Forrest, David ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake source observations; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

APPARENT SOURCE; ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; BODY WAVES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HYPOCENTRE; INSAR DATA; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INVERSION RESULTS; JOINT INVERSION; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; RESOLUTION TESTS; SATELLITE GEODESY; SOURCE PROCESS; SOURCE RUPTURE PROCESS; SUB-EVENTS; TELESEISMIC;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOPHYSICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FAULTING;

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GEODESY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AQUILA;

EID: 84869084766     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05694.x     Document Type: Article

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