Regional seismic characteristics of the 9 October 2006 North Korean nuclear test

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2571-2589

  Zhao, Lian Feng ^a   Xie, Xiao Bi ^b   Wang, Wei Min ^a   Yao, Zhen Ying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TESTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FULLY-COUPLED; NORTH KOREA; NORTH KOREANS; NUCLEAR TESTS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC SIGNATURES; SPECTRAL RATIOS; TEST SITES;

EXPLOSIVES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LG-WAVE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; NORTH KOREA;

EID: 53749102249     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080128     Document Type: Article

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