Automatic P- and S-wave local earthquake tomography: Testing performance of the automatic phase-picker engine “RSNI-Picker”

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 526-536

  Scafidi, D ^a   Spallarossa, D ^a   Turino, C ^a   Ferretti, G ^a   Vigano A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSOLUTE VELOCITIES; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; EARTHQUAKE MONITORING SYSTEM; PROPAGATION MODELS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TESTING PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY OF GENOA;

EARTHQUAKES;

P-WAVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

EID: 84964034526     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120150084     Document Type: Article

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