Spectral discrimination between quarry blasts and earthquakes in southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2073-2079

  Allmann, Bettina P ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EXPLOSIVES; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; QUARRIES;

LEAST SQUARES METHODS; PROPAGATION PATHS; SITE EFFECTS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; BLASTING; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; GREEN FUNCTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; P-WAVE; QUARRY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549096654     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070215     Document Type: Article

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