Source spectral modeling of regional P/S discriminants at nuclear test sites in China and the former Soviet Union

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2348-2367

  Fisk, Mark D ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; SEISMIC WAVES;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; NUCLEAR TEST SITES; SOURCE SPECTRAL MODELING; WAVE GENERATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

MODELING; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; WAVE GENERATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; USSR;

EID: 33846106705     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060023     Document Type: Article

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