Infrasound observation of the apparent North Korean nuclear test of 25 May 2009

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Che, Il Young ^a   Kim, Tae Sung ^a   Jeon, Jeong Soo ^a   Lee, Hee Il ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COUPLING; DIRECT TRANSFER; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EXPLOSION ENERGY; HIGH EXPLOSIVES; INFRASONIC SIGNALS; INFRASOUND; NORTH KOREA; NORTH KOREAN; NUCLEAR TESTS; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMO-ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; SMALL ENERGY; SOUTH KOREA; SURFACE EXPLOSIONS; SURFACE GROUND MOTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EXPLOSIVES;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COUPLING; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; INFRASONICS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL RECORD;

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

EID: 72049109681     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041017     Document Type: Article

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