Regionalized versus single-station wave-guide effects on seismic discriminants in Western China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1260-1274

  Fan, Guangwei ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0032450322     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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