A study of small magnitude seismic events during 1961-1989 on and near the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 143-171

  Khalturin, Vitaly I ^a   Rautian, Tatyana G ^a   Richards, Paul G ^b,c  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical explosions; Ground truth data; Nuclear explosions; Seismic discrimination; Semipalatinsk Test Site

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 0035094382     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8250-7_11     Document Type: Article

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