Regional seismic-event characterization using a Bayesian formulation of simple kriging

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2277-2296

  Bottone, Steven ^a   Fisk, Mark D ^a   McCartor, Gary D ^a  

^a MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; EXPLOSIONS; MONITORING; TECTONICS;

SEISMIC EVENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; KRIGING; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMICITY;

EID: 0036704536     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010141     Document Type: Article

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