Infrasonic signals from large mining explosions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 768-777

  Arrowsmith, Stephen J ^a,c   Hedlin, Michael A H ^a   Stump, Brian ^b   Arrowsmith, Marie D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARRAY PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAY TRACING;

INFRASONIC SIGNALS; INFRASOUND ARRAYS; MINING EXPLOSIONS;

EXPLOSIONS;

ALGORITHM; EXPLOSION; INFRASONICS; MINING; RAY TRACING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 42649128016     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060241     Document Type: Article

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