Rapidly Estimated Seismic Source Parameters for the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile Mw 8.3 Earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 321-332

  Ye, Lingling ^a   Lay, Thorne ^b   Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Koper, Keith D ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

2015 Illapel earthquake; Chilean seismic gaps; rupture process; seismic rupture parameters

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TENSORS; TSUNAMIS;

EXPANSION VELOCITY; FINITE FAULT INVERSIONS; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTIONS; RADIATED SEISMIC ENERGIES; RUPTURE PARAMETERS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEISMIC GAPS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TSUNAMI;

CHILE;

EID: 84957977186     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-015-1202-y     Document Type: Article

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