Attenuation of short-period P waves at Mount St. Helens

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1441-1455

  Tusa, Giuseppina ^a   Malone, Stephen D ^b   Giampiccolo, Elisabetta ^c   Gresta, Stefano ^a   Musumeci, Carla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CRACKS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS;

MAGMA CHAMBERS; MICROEARTHQUAKES;

SEISMIC WAVES;

MAGMA CHAMBER; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; VOLCANO;

CASCADE RANGE; MOUNT SAINT HELENS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7244234372     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003040     Document Type: Article

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