Making reliable shear-wave splitting measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2680-2693

  Liu, Kelly H ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BAND PASS FILTERING; CORNER FREQUENCY; MECHANICAL PROBLEMS; QUALITY RANKING; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SYNTHETIC DATA; TRANSVERSE ENERGY;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMOLOGY; SENSORS; SHEAR WAVES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

BODY WAVE; DATA PROCESSING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMOLOGY; SENSOR; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84884944925     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120355     Document Type: Article

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