Regional Seismic Signals from Chemical Explosions, Nuclear Explosions and Earthquakes: Results from the Arizona Source Phenomenology Experiment

Walter, W R ; Gok, R ; Mayeda, K ; Sicherman, A ; Bonner, J ; Leidig, M

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Calibration;    Nuclear Explosions;    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;    Mining;    Testing;   

DOI  :  10.2172/877819
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-215061
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  877819

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Routine industrial mining explosions play two important roles in seismic nuclear monitoring research: (1) they are a source of background events that need to be discriminated from potential nuclear explosions; (2) as some of the only explosions occurring in the current de facto global moratoria on nuclear testing, their signals should be exploited to improve the calibration of seismic m monitoring systems. A common issue monitoring arising in both of these roles is our limited physical understanding of the causes behind observed differences and similarities in the seismic signals produced by routine industrial mining blasts and small underground nuclear tests. In 2003 a consortium (Weston, SMU, LLNL, LANL and UTEP) carried out a Source Phenomenology Experiment (SPE), a series of dedicated explosions designed to improve this physical understanding, particularly as it relates to seismic methods of discriminating between signals from three different source types: earthquakes, industrial blasts, and nuclear tests. Here we very briefly review prior field experimental work that examined the seismic relationships between these source types.