Ground vibration near explosions
- Creators
- Howell, Benjamin F., Jr.
Abstract
One would expect that, since seismic waves from explosions are the basis of a whole industry (seismic surveying), their nature would have been throughly investigated and described. However, the exploration geophysicist is not primarily interested in the nature of the seismic pulses, but in their velocities and the paths they travel to his recording instruments. It is common practice in studying seismic exploration records to assume that only compressional pulses are clearly recorded, though occasionally the presence of some transverse wave energy is postulated to explain otherwise incomprehensible observations. Other types of wave motion are treated as part of the background noise, and wherever possible are excluded from the recorded spectrum by the use of appropriate filters in the amplifiers.
Additional Information
Copyright © 1949, by the Seismological Society of America. This paper is a summary of a Ph.D. thesis in geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. The complete thesis may be consulted in the Institute library. Manuscript received for publication April 18, 1949. In closing, the author would like to thank the many persons, especially Dr. Beno Gutenberg of the California Institute of Technology and Dr. R. A. Peterson of United Geophysical Company, for their advice and assistance, without which this research could not have been done.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140731-152527646
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- Caltech Division of Geological Sciences
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- 494