Attenuation of high-frequency seismic waves in Kachchh Region, Gujarat, India

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2325-2340

  Sharma, Babita ^a   Gupta, Arun K ^a   Devi, D Kameswari ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^b   Teotia, S S ^b   Rastogi, B K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BANDPASS FILTERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEISMOLOGY;

AND SCATTERINGS; ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; AVERAGE FREQUENCIES; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; CODA WAVES; FOCAL DEPTHS; HIGH-FREQUENCY; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LOCAL EARTHQUAKES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NORMALIZATION METHODS; P WAVES; QUALITY FACTORS; S WAVES; SCATTERING ATTENUATIONS;

SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; CRUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE ATTENUATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; KUTCH; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 54949085753     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070224     Document Type: Article

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