Isotropic source terms of San Jacinto fault zone earthquakes based on waveform inversions with a generalized CAP method

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1267-1278

  Ross, Z E ^a   Ben Zion, Y ^a   Zhu, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake source observations; Fault zone rheology; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPLOSIVES; FAULTING;

BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; ISOTROPIC SOURCES; MANN-WHITNEY U TEST; OXFORD UNIVERSITY; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TENSOR PROPERTIES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 85107700550     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu460     Document Type: Article

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