Rapid automated W-phase slip inversion for the Illapel great earthquake (2015, Mw = 8.3)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1910-1917

  Benavente, Roberto ^a   Cummins, Phil R ^a   Dettmer, Jan ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

early warning; earthquake source inversion; finite fault modeling; W phase

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FINITE FAULT INVERSIONS; FINITE FAULT MODELING; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; W PHASE;

FAULTING;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; SEISMIC HAZARD; TRENCH; TSUNAMI;

CHILE;

EID: 84959524279     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067418     Document Type: Article

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