Direct-seismogram inversion for receiver-side structure with uncertain source–time functions

Jan Dettmer,1,2 Stan E. Dosso,1 Thomas Bodin,3,4 Josip Stipčević2,5 and Phil R. Cummins2 1School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. E-mail: jand@uvic.ca 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia 3Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, 215 McCone Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-4760, USA 4Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, École Normale Superieure de Lyon, Université de Lyon-1, CNRS, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France 5Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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