Characteristics of chemical explosive sources from time-dependent moment tensors

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-51

  Yang, Xiaoning ^a   Bonner, Jessie L ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; COAL MINES; COAL RESEARCH; EXPLOSIONS; MINING; TENSORS;

BROAD-BAND DATUM; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIONS; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES; DEVIATORIC COMPONENTS; FREE SURFACES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; ISOTROPIC MOMENTS; LINEAR INVERSIONS; LINEAR VECTORS; MOMENT TENSORS; OFF-DIAGONAL COMPONENTS; OPEN PITS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SOURCE EFFECTS; SOURCE REGIONS; SOURCE SIZES; TENSOR COMPONENTS; TIME DEPENDENTS; TIME HISTORY; TIME-DEPENDENT MOMENTS;

EXPLOSIVES;

BROADBAND DATA; DATA INVERSION; EXPLOSION; MOMENT TENSOR; OPEN PIT MINE; S-WAVE;

EID: 60649103821     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080243     Document Type: Article

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