Ground-coupled acoustic airwaves from Mount St. Helens provide constraints on the May 18, 1980 eruption

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 16-31

  Johnson, Jeffrey B ^a   Malone, Stephen D ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic airwaves; ground coupled seismicity; Mount St. Helens

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC AIRWAVES; GROUND-COUPLED SEISMICITY; STRATOSPHERIC REFRACTION; THERMOSPHERIC REFRACTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

VOLCANOES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; DISLOCATION; SEISMICITY; SOUND PROPAGATION; TRAVEL TIME; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CASCADE RANGE; MOUNT SAINT HELENS; NORTH AMERICA; TOUTLE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 34249076126     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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