Explosion source strong ground motions in the Mississippi embayment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1038-1054

  Langston, Charles A ^a   Bodin, Paul ^a   Powell, Christine ^a   Withers, Mitch ^a   Horton, Steve ^a   Mooney, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ARRAYS; BOREHOLES; EXPLOSIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOREHOLE EXPLOSION SOURCES; PLANE-WAVE-PROPAGATION MODEL; TIME-DEPENDENT PHASE-VELOCITY MAP;

SEISMOLOGY;

BOREHOLE; EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; GROUND MOTION; SEDIMENT; STRONG MOTION;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745460938     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050105     Document Type: Article

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