Rapid earthquake characterization using MEMS accelerometers and volunteer hosts following the M 7.2 Darfield, New Zealand, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 184-192

  Lawrence, Jesse F ^a   Cochran, Elizabeth S ^b   Chung, Angela ^a   Kaiser, Anna ^c   Christensen, Carl M ^a   Allen, Richard ^d   Baker, Jack W ^a   Fry, Bill ^c   Heaton, Thomas ^e   Kilb, Deborah ^f   Kohler, Monica D ^e   Taufer, Michela ^g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Geological Survey   (United States)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; MEMS ACCELEROMETER; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS ACCELEROMETERS; NETWORK OPERATIONS; REAL-TIME DETECTION;

ACCELEROMETERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; SENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELEROMETER; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GROUND MOTION; INTERNET; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CHRISTCHURCH [CANTERBURY]; DARFIELD; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84893285955     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120196     Document Type: Article

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