Frequency dependence of coda Q, Part I: Numerical modeling and examples from peaceful nuclear explosions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2615-2628

  Morozov, Igor B ^a   Zhang, Chaoying ^a   Duenow, Joel N ^b,c   Morozova, Elena A ^b   Smithson, Scott B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TECTONICS;

ACTIVE TECTONICS; CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURES; EUROPEAN PLATFORMS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENTS; NUCLEAR TESTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; QUALITY FACTORS; SEISMIC CODAS; SPURIOUS FREQUENCIES; STRUCTURAL TYPES; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES; WAVE ATTENUATIONS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

CODA; CRUST; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 53549112987     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080037     Document Type: Article

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