A new seismogeodetic approach applied to GPS and accelerometer observations of the 2012 Brawley seismic swarm: Implications for earthquake early warning

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2124-2142

  Geng, Jianghui ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^a   Melgar, Diego ^a   Crowell, Brendan W ^a   Haase, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

earthquake early warning; GPS geodesy; precise point positioning; seismogeodesy; seismology; tightly coupled Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROCESS; PRECISE POINT POSITIONING; PSEUDORANGE OBSERVATIONS; SEISMOGEODESY; TIGHTLY-COUPLED;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELEROMETER; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; GNSS; GPS; KALMAN FILTER; P-WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SALTON TROUGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876947687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20144     Document Type: Article

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