Resolvability of isotropic component in regional seismic moment tensor inversion

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2460-2473

  Křížová, Dana ^a   Zahradník, Jiří ^a   Kiratzi, Anastasia ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ELLIPSOIDS; INVERSION PROBLEMS; NON LINEAR INVERSION; SEISMIC MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SOURCE GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EIGENVALUE; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOMENT TENSOR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GREECE; SANTORINI [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84880203173     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120097     Document Type: Article

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