Acta Seismologica Sinica

, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp 583–592 | Cite as

Inversion of waveform from the data of six moderate strong earthquakes in Chinese mainland to seismic moment tensors and source mechanism

  • Shao-Dong Fang
  • Pei-Shan Chen
Article

Abstract

Based on Generalized Seismic Ray Theory (Helmberger, 1968), a new quickly linear inversion method from the data of seismic waveform to seismic moment tensor and source mechanism for domestic earthquake is studied in this paper. Six moderately strong earthquakes which occurred in Chinese mainland in the past few years are studied. The seismic source parameters of these earthquakes, seismic moment tensors, scalar seismic moments, fault plane solutions and source time functionsetc, are obtained.

Key words

seismic moment fault plane solution linear inversion theoretical seismogram 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Shao-Dong Fang
    • 1
  • Pei-Shan Chen
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of GeophysicsState Seismological BureauBeijingChina

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