Overview
- Serves as a more-in-depth successor of the editor's successful book on "Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society"
- Supports graduate textbooks with its numerous case studies in seismology
- Presents examples from around the globe
Part of the book series: Springer Natural Hazards (SPRINGERNAT)
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About this book
This book first focuses on the explanation of the theory about focal mechanisms and moment tensor solutions and their role in the modern seismology. The second part of the book compiles several state-of-the-art case studies in different seismotectonic settings of the planet.The assessment of seismic hazard and the reduction of losses due to future earthquakes is probably the most important contribution of seismology to society. In this regard, the understanding of reliable determination seismic source and of its uncertainty can play a key role in contributing to geodynamic investigation, seismic hazard assessment and earthquake studies. In the last two decades, the use of waveforms recorded at local-to-regional distances has increased considerably. Waveform modeling has been used also to estimate faulting parameters of small-to-moderate sized earthquakes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moment Tensor Solutions
Book Subtitle: A Useful Tool for Seismotectonics
Editors: Sebastiano D'Amico
Series Title: Springer Natural Hazards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77359-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77358-2Published: 28 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08437-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77359-9Published: 12 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-0656
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0664
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 752
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 265 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Geology, Quantitative Geology, Computer Applications, Geophysics and Environmental Physics