Earthquake source parameters from GPS-measured static displacements with potential for real-time application

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-65

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID-MOMENT TENSORS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; ITERATIVE INVERSION; PRIORI INFORMATION; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; STATIC DISPLACEMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ITERATIVE METHODS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DISPLACEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; REAL TIME; SEISMIC SOURCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84874856367     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054209     Document Type: Article

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