Attenuation of seismic waves in the Trinidad and Tobago area

Tectonophysics

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 111-127

  Latchman, Joan L ^a   Ambeh, William B ^a   Lynch, Lloyd L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 0029730188     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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