3D first-arrival regional calibration model of northern Eurasia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 951-964

  Morozov, Igor B ^a   Morozova, Elena A ^b   Smithson, Scott B ^b   Richards, Paul G ^c   Khalturin, Vitaly I ^c   Solodilov, Leonid N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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

^d Center of Regional Geophysical and Geoecological Exploration GEON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT); DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING (DSS) PROFILES; REGIONALIZATION TECHNIQUES; SEISMOLOGICAL MONITORING;

SEISMOLOGY;

TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 22744440190     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030173     Document Type: Article

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