Lop nor revisited: Underground nuclear explosion locations, 1976-1996, from double-difference analysis of regional and teleseismic data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1879-1889

  Waldhauser, Felix ^a   Schaff, David ^a   Richards, Paul G ^a,b   Kim, Won Young ^a  

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

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); EXPLOSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY; TESTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EARTH MODEL; SEISMIC SIGNALS; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES; UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOP NUR; WORLD; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 12144253620     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003184     Document Type: Article

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