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A California Statewide Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Model from Both Absolute and Differential Times

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A New Method for Determining First-Motion Focal Mechanisms

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A Search for Temporal Variations in Station Terms in Southern California from 1984 to 2002

A comparison of long-term changes in seismicity at The Geysers, Salton Sea, and Coso geothermal fields

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A global study of transition zone thickness using receiver functions

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A global view of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

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A high-frequency secondary event during the 2004 Parkfield earthquake

scientific article published in November 2007

A mantle thermometer

scientific article published in Nature

A map of topography on the 410-km discontinuity from PP precursors

scientific article published in 1999

A sporadic low-velocity layer atop the 410 km discontinuity beneath the Pacific Ocean

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A survey of 71 earthquake bursts across southern California: Exploring the role of pore fluid pressure fluctuations and aseismic slip as drivers

scholarly article by John E. Vidale & Peter M. Shearer published May 2006 in Journal of Geophysical Research

A three-dimensional crustal seismic velocity model for southern California from a composite event method

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Abundant Spontaneous and Dynamically Triggered Submarine Landslides in the Gulf of Mexico

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Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho

scholarly article by Keith D. Koper et al published 5 June 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

An Improved Method to Determine Coda-Q, Earthquake Magnitude and Site Amplification: Theory and Application to Southern California

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An analysis of large-scale variations in small-scale mantle heterogeneity using Global Seismographic Network recordings of precursors to PKP

scientific article published in 2000

An elusive blind-thrust fault beneath metropolitan los angeles

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An introduction to the special issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters on USArray science

scholarly article by Maureen D. Long et al published September 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Analysis of Foreshock Sequences in California and Implications for Earthquake Triggering

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Analysis of similar event clusters in aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

scientific article published in January 2003

Anisotropy andVp/Vsin the uppermost mantle beneath the western United States from joint analysis ofPnandSnphases

scholarly article by Janine S. Buehler & Peter M. Shearer published February 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Application of an improved spectral decomposition method to examine earthquake source scaling in Southern California

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Applying a three-dimensional velocity model, waveform cross correlation, and cluster analysis to locate southern California seismicity from 1981 to 2005

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Attenuation models (QPandQS) in three dimensions of the southern California crust: Inferred fluid saturation at seismogenic depths

scientific article published in 2006

Automated detection and cataloging of global explosive volcanism using the International Monitoring System infrasound network

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Axi-symmetric Earth models and inner-core anisotropy

scientific article published in Nature

Calibrating Spectral Decomposition of Local Earthquakes Using Borehole Seismic Records—Results for the 1992 Big Bear Aftershocks in Southern California

California foreshock sequences suggest aseismic triggering process

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Cascadia tremor spectra: Low corner frequencies and earthquake-like high-frequency falloff

scholarly article by Jian Zhang et al published October 2011 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Chapter 6 Observing and Modeling Elastic Scattering in the Deep Earth

Characteristics of deep (≥13 km) Hawaiian earthquakes and Hawaiian earthquakes west of 155.55°W

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Characterizing Earthquake Location Uncertainty in North America Using Source–Receiver Reciprocity and USArray

scholarly article by Janine S. Buehler & Peter M. Shearer published 16 August 2016 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Coherent Seismic Arrivals in the P Wave Coda of the 2012 Mw  7.2 Sumatra Earthquake: Water Reverberations or an Early Aftershock?

scholarly article by Wenyuan Fan & Peter M. Shearer published April 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California

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Comparing EGF Methods for Estimating Corner Frequency and Stress Drop From P Wave Spectra

scientific article published in April 2019

Complicated Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Contiguous US Revealed by Teleseismic S‐Reflections

Complicated lithospheric structure beneath the contiguous US revealed by teleseismic S reflections

Complicated lithospheric structure beneath the contiguous US revealed by teleseismic S reflections

Comprehensive High‐Precision Relocation of Seismicity on the Island of Hawai‘i 1986–2018

Comprehensive analysis of earthquake source spectra in southern California

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Compressional and shear wave anisotropy in the oceanic lithosphere - the Ngendei seismic refraction experiment

Compressive sensing of frequency-dependent seismic radiation from subduction zone megathrust ruptures

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Compressive sensing of the Tohoku-Oki Mw 9.0 earthquake: Frequency-dependent rupture modes

scholarly article by Huajian Yao et al published October 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters

Computing a Large Refined Catalog of Focal Mechanisms for Southern California (1981-2010): Temporal Stability of the Style of Faulting

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Constraining seismic velocity and density for the mantle transition zone with reflected and transmitted waveforms

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Constraints on inner core anisotropy from PKP(DF) travel times

scientific article published in 1994

Constraints on the heterogeneity spectrum of Earth's upper mantle

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Constraints on upper mantle discontinuities from observations of long-period reflected and converted phases

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Converting advances in seismology into earthquake science

scholarly article by Egill Hauksson et al published 2004 in Eos

Crustal earthquake bursts in California and Japan: Their patterns and relation to volcanoes

scholarly article by John E. Vidale et al published 26 October 2006 in Geophysical Research Letters

Deformation on nearby faults induced by the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake

scientific article published in September 2002

Detailed rupture imaging of the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake using teleseismic P waves

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Determination and analysis of long-wavelength transition zone structure using SS precursors

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Does Earthquake Stress Drop Increase With Depth in the Crust?

Does Earthquake Stress Drop Increase with Depth in the Crust?

Does Earthquake Stress Drop Increase with Depth in the Crust?

Dynamics of the 2015 M 7.8 Nepal earthquake

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Earthquake Detection Using a Nodal Array on the San Jacinto Fault in California: Evidence for High Foreshock Rates Preceding Many Events

Earthquake dynamics. Supershear rupture in a M(w) 6.7 aftershock of the 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake

scientific article published in July 2014

Earthquake source scaling and self-similarity estimation from stacking P and S spectra

scholarly article by Germán A. Prieto et al published August 2004 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Estimating Local Vp/Vs Ratios within Similar Earthquake Clusters

scholarly article by G. Lin & P. Shearer published 1 April 2007 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Evidence for Mogi doughnut behavior in seismicity preceding small earthquakes in southern California

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Evidence for water-filled cracks in earthquake source regions

scientific article published in 2009

Experiments in migration processing of SS precursor data to image upper mantle discontinuity structure

scientific article published in 1999

Extent, duration and speed of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake imaged by the Hi-Net array

scientific article published in June 2005

Fault interactions and triggering during the 10 January 2012 Mw 7.2 Sumatra earthquake

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Global P, PP, and PKP wave microseisms observed from distant storms

article by Peter Gerstoft et al published 9 December 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters

Global lateral variations of shear wave attenuation in the upper mantle

scientific article published in 1996

Global mapping of topography on the 660-km discontinuity

scientific article published in Nature

Global mapping of topography on transition zone velocity discontinuities by stackingSSprecursors

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Global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased

scientific article published on December 19, 2011

Global seismic event detection using a matched filter on long-period seismograms

scientific article published in 1994

Global variations of stress drop for moderate to large earthquakes

scientific article published in 2009

GrowClust: A Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Relative Earthquake Relocation, with Application to the Spanish Springs and Sheldon, Nevada, Earthquake Sequences

scientific article published in February 2017

High-precision relocation of long-period events beneath the summit region of Kı̄lauea Volcano, Hawai‘i, from 1986 to 2009

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High‐frequency P‐wave seismic noise driven by ocean winds

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Illuminating the near-sonic rupture velocities of the intracontinental Kokoxili Mw 7.8 and Denali fault Mw 7.9 strike-slip earthquakes with global P wave back projection imaging

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Imaging Upper‐Mantle Structure Under USArray Using Long‐Period Reflection Seismology

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Imaging mantle transition zone thickness with SdS-SS finite-frequency sensitivity kernels

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Imaging the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Pacific usingSSwaveform modeling

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Improved Stress Drop Estimates for M 1.5 to 4 Earthquakes in Southern California From 1996 to 2019

Improving local earthquake locations using the L1 norm and waveform cross correlation: Application to the Whittier Narrows, California, aftershock sequence

scientific article published in 1997

Infrasound events detected with the Southern California Seismic Network

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Inner-core fine-scale structure from scattered waves recorded by LASA

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Insights into the mechanism of intermediate-depth earthquakes from source properties as imaged by back projection of multiple seismic phases

scholarly article by E. Kiser et al published 28 June 2011 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Investigating the frequency dependence of mantleQby stackingPandPPspectra

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Investigation of Backprojection Uncertainties With M6 Earthquakes

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Kinematic earthquake rupture inversion in the frequency domain

scholarly article by Wenyuan Fan et al published 18 September 2014 in Geophysical Journal International

Lessons Learned from the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Megathrust Rupture

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Likely P-to-S Conversion at the Core-Mantle Boundary Extracted From Array Processing of Noise Records

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Likely PKS-PKP from Array Processing of Noise Records

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Likely PKS-PKP from Array Processing of Noise Records

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Likely P‐to‐S Conversion at the Core‐Mantle Boundary Extracted From Array Processing of Noise Records

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Local near instantaneously dynamically triggered aftershocks of large earthquakes

scientific article published in September 2016

Location and size of the shallow magma reservoir beneath Kīlauea caldera, constraints from near‐source V p / V s ratios

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Locking depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault System: Implications for seismic moment release

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Mantle Q structure from S - P differential attenuation measurements

scientific article published in 2008

Mantle earthquakes in the Himalayan collision zone

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Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

scientific article published on April 2003

Mapping attenuation beneath North America using waveform cross-correlation and cluster analysis

scientific article published in 2006

Mapping lateral variations in upper mantle attenuation by stacking P and PP spectra

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Methods for determining infrasound phase velocity direction with an array of line sensors

scientific article published in October 2008

Microseisms and hum from ocean surface gravity waves

scholarly article by James Traer et al published November 2012 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Multiple branching rupture of the 2009 Tonga‐Samoa earthquake

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New perspectives on self‐similarity for shallow thrust earthquakes

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Observations of PKKP Precursors Used to Estimate Small-Scale Topography on the Core-Mantle Boundary

Oceanic plateau of the Hawaiian mantle plume head subducted to the uppermost lower mantle

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

On the frequency dependence and spatial coherence of PKP precursor amplitudes

On the visibility of the inner-core shear wave phase PKJKP at long periods

Parallel fault strands at 9-km depth resolved on the Imperial Fault, Southern California

scientific article published in July 2002

Pn tomography of the western United States using USArray

scientific article published in 2010

Possible seasonality in large deep‐focus earthquakes

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Precise relocations and stress change calculations for the Upland earthquake sequence in southern California

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Probing mid-mantle heterogeneity using PKP coda waves

Ray tracing in azimuthally anisotropic media-II. Quasi-shear wave coupling

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Reconciling discrepancies among estimates of small-scale mantle heterogeneity from PKP precursors

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Reply to comment by A. Douglas on ‘Systematic determination of earthquake rupture directivity and fault planes from analysis of long-period P-wave spectra’

scholarly article by Linda M. Warren & Peter M. Shearer published May 2007 in Geophysical Journal International

Reply to comment by S. Hainzl on “Self-similar earthquake triggering, Båth's Law, and foreshock/aftershock magnitudes: Simulations, theory and results for southern California”

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Report on the August 2012 Brawley Earthquake Swarm in Imperial Valley, Southern California

scholarly article by Egill Hauksson et al published 1 March 2013 in Seismological Research Letters

Resolving P-wave travel-time anomalies using seismic array observations of oceanic storms

article by Jian Zhang et al published April 2010 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Resolving crustal thickness using SS waveform stacks

article published in 2010

Rupture details of the 28 March 2005 Sumatra Mw 8.6 earthquake imaged with teleseismic P waves

scholarly article by Kristoffer T. Walker et al published 2005 in Geophysical Research Letters

Rupture directivity of small earthquakes at Parkfield

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Rupture evolution of the 2006 Java tsunami earthquake and the possible role of splay faults

scholarly article by Wenyuan Fan et al published November 2017 in Tectonophysics

S -to-Rayleigh Wave Scattering From the Continental Margin Observed at USArray

scholarly article by Janine S. Buehler et al published 22 May 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Scattered P'P' Waves Observed at Short Distances

Scattered wave imaging of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary

article published in 2010

Seafloor seismic monitoring of an active submarine volcano: Local seismicity at Vailulu'u Seamount, Samoa

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Searching for hidden earthquakes in Southern California

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Seismic Velocity and Density Jumps Across the 410- and 660-Kilometer Discontinuities

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Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage zones

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Seismic constraints on mantle flow and topography of the 660-km discontinuity: evidence for whole-mantle convection

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity throughout the Earth's mantle

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume

Seismic imaging of upper-mantle structure with new evidence for a 520-km discontinuity

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic migration processing of P-SV converted phases for mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Snake River Plain, western United States

scholarly article by Anne F. Sheehan et al published 10 August 2000 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Seismic source spectra and estimated stress drop derived from cohesive-zone models of circular subshear rupture

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Seismic studies of the upper mantle and transition zone

Seismic tomography of compressional wave attenuation structure for Kı̄lauea Volcano, Hawai‘i

scholarly article by Guoqing Lin et al published April 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Seismic wave observations with the Global Positioning System

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Seismically active wedge structure beneath the Coalinga anticline, San Joaquin basin, California

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Self-similar earthquake triggering, Båth's law, and foreshock/aftershock magnitudes: Simulations, theory, and results for southern California

scientific article published in 2012

Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms

Slip segmentation and slow rupture to the trench during the 2015, Mw 8.3 Illapel, Chile earthquake

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Slow waves in young basalts

scientific article published in Nature

Sn propagation in the Western United States from common midpoint stacks of USArray data

scholarly article by Janine S. Buehler & Peter M. Shearer published 12 December 2013 in Geophysical Research Letters

Source Spectral Properties of Small to Moderate Earthquakes in Southern Kansas

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Source mechanism of small long-period events at Mount St. Helens in July 2005 using template matching, phase-weighted stacking, and full-waveform inversion

Southern California Hypocenter Relocation with Waveform Cross-Correlation, Part 2: Results Using Source-Specific Station Terms and Cluster Analysis

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Spatial and temporal stress drop variations in small earthquakes near Parkfield, California

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Spatio-temporal distribution of fault slip and high-frequency radiation of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah, Mexico earthquake

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Spatiotemporal Variations of Focal Mechanism and In Situ V p / V s Ratio During the 2018 Kīlauea Eruption

scientific article published in 2021

Spectral Discrimination between Quarry Blasts and Earthquakes in Southern California

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Standards for Documenting Finite‐Fault Earthquake Rupture Models

scholarly article by P. Martin Mai et al published 6 April 2016 in Seismological Research Letters

Stress drop variations among small earthquakes before the 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan, earthquake and implications for the main shock

scholarly article by Takahiko Uchide et al published September 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Stress-drop heterogeneity within tectonically complex regions: a case study of San Gorgonio Pass, southern California

Stress-induced upper crustal anisotropy in southern California

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Strong Correlation between Stress Drop and Peak Ground Acceleration for Recent M 1–4 Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Subevent location and rupture imaging using iterative backprojection for the 2011 Tohoku Mw 9.0 earthquake

scholarly article by Huajian Yao et al published 6 June 2012 in Geophysical Journal International

Systematic relocation of seismicity on Hawaii Island from 1992 to 2009 using waveform cross correlation and cluster analysis

Teleseismic P wave imaging of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and 28 March 2005 Sumatra earthquake ruptures using the Hi-net array

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Tests of relative earthquake location techniques using synthetic data

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The 3 August 2009 Mw 6.9 Canal de Ballenas Region, Gulf of California, Earthquake and Its Aftershocks

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The COMPLOC Earthquake Location Package

scholarly article by G. Lin & Peter M. Shearer published 1 July 2006 in Seismological Research Letters

The Long-Lasting Aftershock Series of the 3 May 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora Earthquake in the Mexican Basin and Range Province

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The complex dynamics of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, <i>M</i> <sub>w</sub> 7.8-7.7 earthquake doublet

scientific article published on 03 August 2023

The fossil roots of continents

scientific article published in Nature

The global short-period wavefield modelled with a Monte Carlo seismic phonon method

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The matrix profile: a fast and sensitive template matching method for seismic event detection that does not require templates

Three-dimensional seismic velocity structure of Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes in Hawaii from local seismic tomography

Topography on the 410-km seismic velocity discontinuity near subduction zones from stacking ofsS,sP, andpPprecursors

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Transition zone velocity gradients and the 520-km discontinuity

scientific article published in 1996

Upper mantle anisotropy from long-period P polarization

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Uppermost mantle seismic velocity structure beneath USArray

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Using direct and coda wave envelopes to resolve the scattering and intrinsic attenuation structure of Southern California

article published in 2017

Using the Effects of Depth Phases on P-wave Spectra to Determine Earthquake Depths

scholarly article by L. M. Warren & Peter M. Shearer published 1 February 2005 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Variability of seismic source spectra, estimated stress drop, and radiated energy, derived from cohesive-zone models of symmetrical and asymmetrical circular and elliptical ruptures

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Variations in solar wind fractionation as seen by ACE/SWICS and the implications for genesis mission results

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Water in the lower continental crust: modelling magnetotelluric and seismic reflection results

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Waveform Relocated Earthquake Catalog for Southern California (1981 to June 2011)

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Wetting dynamics of a collapsing fluid hole

observations of high-frequency scattered energy associated with the core PhasePKKP

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