NSWath: Cross sectional Swaths of Earthquakes over Japan
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NSWath

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Cross sectional Swaths of Earthquakes over Japan

Description

Set of 4 swaths for cross section across Japan

Usage

data(NSWath)

Format

list of cross sections each conists of a list of form:

r: r-distance along cross section (x-coordinate)
dh: distance from cross seection
depth: depth in cross section (y-coordinate)
flag: index vector of which earthquakes fell in swath and depth range
InvBox: coordinates of swath for plotting on map

Source

Data is extrcted from an earthquake data base of relocated events provided by Robert Engdahl.

References

Engdahl, E. R., R. D. van der Hilst, S. H. Kirby, G. Ekstrom, K. M. Shedlock, and A. F. Sheehan (1998), A global survey of slab structures and internal processes using a combined data base of high-resolution earthquake hypocenters, tomographic images and focal mechanism data, Seismol. Res. Lett., 69, 153-154.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(NSWath)
for(i in 1:length(NSWath))
{
dev.new()
LAB = attr(NSWath[[i]], "LAB")

XSECwin( NSWath[[i]] , iseclab=i, xLAB=LAB , labs=NULL, demo=TRUE  )   
}


## End(Not run)

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