Attenuation of coda waves in the Aswan Reservoir area, Egypt

Tectonophysics

Volumn 492, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 88-98

  Mohamed, H H ^a   Mukhopadhyay, S ^b   Sharma, J ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Aswan Reservoir; Coda Q; Egypt; Lapse time; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ASWAN RESERVOIR; ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS; CODA Q; CODA WAVES; DEPTH OF FOCUS; EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS; EGYPT; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FLUID-FILLED; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GULF OF SUEZ; LAPSE TIME; PARTIAL MELT; RESERVOIR AREA; RESERVOIR INDUCED SEISMICITY; SCATTERING METHODS; STABLE REGION; STUDY AREAS; TIME VARYING; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; TURBIDITY;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

CODA; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; INDUCED SEISMICITY; PARTIAL MELTING; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EGYPT; GULF OF SUEZ; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; KOYNA; LAKE NASSER; MAHARASHTRA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84755160941     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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