Statistical classification approach to discrimination between weak earthquakes and quarry blasts recorded by the Israel Seismic Network

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 113, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 161-182

  Kushnir, A F ^a,b   Troitsky, E V ^a   Haikin, L M ^a   Dainty, A ^c  

^a IRIS Moscow Data Anal Ctr/S   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Explosions; Israel; Seismic discrimination; Statistical classification

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; MONITORING; SEISMOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0033394804     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00021-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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