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Assessment of Tomography Models of Taiwan Using First-Arrival Times from the TAIGER Active-Source Experiment

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Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Tomography Using Active Source and Earthquake Records

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In 2008, the TAIGER project conducted an active-source experiment in which seismic records from 10 explosions were collected at nearly 1400 locations on the island of Taiwan. In this study, we manually pick the first-arrival times from the explosion records to ensure reliable and accurate travel time observations, and use them to examine the complex P-wave structural variations in the crust beneath Taiwan.

Originally published in [Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America April 2011 vol. 101 no. 2 866-880]. Published with kind permission of © [Seismological Society of America 2011]. All Rights Reserved.

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Lin, YP. (2018). Assessment of Tomography Models of Taiwan Using First-Arrival Times from the TAIGER Active-Source Experiment. In: Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Tomography Using Active Source and Earthquake Records. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5068-8_2

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