On the probability of detecting picoseismicity

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2579-2591

  Plenkers, K ^a   Schorlemmer, D ^b   Kwiatek, G ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; HETEROGENEOUS OBSERVATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC CATALOG; SEISMIC EVENT; SMALL NETWORKS; SOUTH AFRICA; THREE DIMENSIONS;

ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; SEISMOLOGY;

LIBRARIES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOLD MINE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY;

MPONENG MINE; NORTH WEST PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 83255186222     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110017     Document Type: Article

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