Consider a Kirchhoff plate ∂ t 2 u+Δ 2 u-∂ t 2 Δu=0 in Ω×(0,T), with boundary data u=Δu=0 on ∂Ω×(0,T) and unknown initial data u(·,0)=u 0 and ∂ t u(·,0)=u 1 in Ω. We study an inverse problem of determining (u 0 ,u 1 ) from an interior observation u| ω×(0,T) . Here Ω is a bounded domain, ω is a nonempty open subset of Ω, and T>0 is a suitable time duration. By means of an iterative time reversal
... [Show full abstract] technique, we derive an asymptotic formula of reconstructing (u 0 ,u 1 ) approximately with a logarithmical convergence rate for smooth initial data. The convergence becomes uniform and exponential when (Ω,ω,T) satisfies the geometric control condition introduced by Bardos, Lebeau, and Rauch.