Concepedia

Earthquake Location

Earthquake Location is a seismological procedure that determines the origin time and hypocentral coordinates of an earthquake by inverting observed seismic phase arrivals (and/or waveforms) at a network of stations within a specified Earth velocity model.

3.9K

Publications

232.9K

Citations

8.3K

Authors

1.6K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

803

Variants

Earthquake LocationsHypocenter DeterminationSeismic Event Location

Parents

Children

Publications

3.9K

Frequency of earthquakes in California*

B. Gutenberg, C. F. Richter · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1944 · 4.4K citations

, , +11

Earthquake shakes Twitter users

Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo · 2010 · 3.7K citations

, , +14

Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification

B. L. N. Kennett, E. R. Engdahl · Geophysical Journal International · 1991 · 3.6K citations · Full text

, , +14

A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California

F. Waldhauser · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 2000 · 3.6K citations

, , +16

The displacement field of the Landers earthquake mapped by radar interferometry

D. Massonnet, M. Rossi, César Carmona et al. · Nature · 1993 · 2.2K citations

, , +16

1–5 of 3.9K

Authors

8.3K

  1. ER
    E. R. Engdahl

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    34 publications · 8.2K citations

    27

    h-index

  2. HK
    Hiroo Kanamori

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    29 publications · 4K citations

    27

    h-index

  3. WL
    William L. Ellsworth

    Stanford University, United States

    29 publications · 4.1K citations

    26

    h-index

  4. GC
    Gregory C. Beroza

    Stanford University, United States

    34 publications · 5.3K citations

    26

    h-index

  5. PM
    Peter M. Shearer

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States

    27 publications · 3.6K citations

    26

    h-index

1–5 of 8.3K

Institutions

1.6K

  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    75 h-index

    561 publications

    53.8K citations

  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    54 h-index

    261 publications

    33.8K citations

  3. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

    Rome, Italy

    50 h-index

    923 publications

    51.1K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    47 h-index

    383 publications

    17.5K citations

  5. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    43 h-index

    181 publications

    11.4K citations

  6. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    41 h-index

    118 publications

    11.2K citations

  7. GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences

    Potsdam, Germany

    39 h-index

    247 publications

    14K citations

  8. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    38 h-index

    136 publications

    16.6K citations

1–8 of 1.6K

Venues

  1. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

    BSSA · 668 publications · 50.8K citations

    93

    h-index

  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 289 publications · 27.1K citations

    91

    h-index

  3. Geophysical Journal International

    GJI · 357 publications · 24.4K citations

    77

    h-index

  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    279 publications · 18.3K citations

    76

    h-index

  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

    124 publications · 8.1K citations

    44

    h-index

1–5