Explosion contamination of the northeast Siberian seismicity catalog: Implications for natural earthquake distributions and the location of the Tanlu Fault in Russia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 737-746

  Mackey, Kevin G ^a   Fujita, Kazuya ^a   Gounbina, Larissa V ^b   Koz'min, Boris M ^c   Imaev, Valery S ^c   Imaeva, Ludmilla P ^c   Sedov, Boris M ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^c DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EXPLOSIONS; MINING; TECTONICS;

SEISMICITY CATALOGS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; FAULT; INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0038755178     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010196     Document Type: Article

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