Identification of presumed shallow underwater chemical explosions using land-based regional arrays

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 581-595

  Baumgardt, Douglas R ^a   Der, Zoltan ^a  

^a ENSCO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSION; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; WEAPONS TEST;

EID: 0031819281     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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