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Probabilistic Estimates of Hypocenters from the Data of Kamchatka Seismic Network Stations

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A new approach is proposed for determining earthquake hypocenters aimed at a more comprehensive characterization of its uncertainty and ambiguity. Application of the new approach to study the seismic focal subduction zones and volcanic seismicity is discussed by the example of the data of the Kamchatka Branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Kamchatka Branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 683006, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Russia

    D. V. Droznin, S. Ya. Droznina, S. L. Senyukov & D. V. Chebrov

  2. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

    N. M. Shapiro

  3. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123242, Moscow, Russia

    N. M. Shapiro

  4. Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia

    P. N. Shebalin

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Droznin, D.V., Droznina, S.Y., Senyukov, S.L. et al. Probabilistic Estimates of Hypocenters from the Data of Kamchatka Seismic Network Stations. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 55, 677–687 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351319040049

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