Source scaling of contained chemical explosions as constrained by regional seismograms

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1212-1225

  Stump, Brian W ^a   Pearson, D Craig ^b   Hsu, Vindell ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Air Force Tech Applications Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; EXPLOSIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DELAY-FIRE EXPLOSIONS; SINGLE-FIRED EXPLOSIONS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AMPLITUDE; EXPLOSION; MINING-INDUCED SEISMICITY; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 0041738906     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020067     Document Type: Article

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