Discrimination of nuclear explosions and earthquakes from teleseismic distances with a local network of short period seismic stations using artificial neural networks

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 97, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 247-268

  Tiira, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; NEURAL NETWORK; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; TELESEISMIC DATA;

CHINA, XINJIANG PROVINCE, LOP NOR; KAZAKHSTAN, SEMIPALATINSK; USA, NEVADA, NEVADA TEST SITE;

EID: 0030423691     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(95)03132-4     Document Type: Article

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