Correlations between the seismic energy parameters and the focal mechanism of seismic events induced by mining

Publications of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Series M: Miscellanea

Volumn 18, Issue 273, 1996, Pages 111-125

  Gibowicz, Slawomir Jerzy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; MINING INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 0030455448     PISSN: 0138015X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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