Locating regional seismic events with global optimization based on interval arithmetic

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 879-885

  Tarvainen, Matti ^a   Tiira, Timo ^a   Husebye, Eystein S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Interval arithmetic; Mining explosions; Regional seismic events; Seismic locating

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION;

FINLAND;

EID: 0032727582     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00920.x     Document Type: Article

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