Source effects on regional seismic discriminant measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2926-2945

  Zhang, Jiajun ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Zaslow, Julia ^a   Walter, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; INTERPOLATION;

NUCLEAR TESTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

MONITORING; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036946275     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010242     Document Type: Article

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