Seismic analysis of the 7 August 1998 truck-bomb blast at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 512-521

  Koper, Keith D ^a   Wallace, Terry C ^a   Hollnack, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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EID: 0009360094     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.70.5.512     Document Type: Article

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