Regional analysis of Former Soviet Union peaceful nuclear explosions recorded in the Former Soviet Union. Final report
Until the late 80`s information on Soviet underground nuclear explosions, let alone seismic recording on Soviet soil, were not generally available to the seismological community. The dramatic changes since then have resulted in access to a wide variety of seismic data from Soviet explosions. In this report the author presents a data set, unique to the field of seismic verification. The data includes a large number of waveforms from in-country seismological station Borovoye for the Soviet peaceful nuclear explosions with announced yields and origin times, some with physical and mechanical conditions at the test site. The waveforms were recorded by digital station of different types. In this report the author has summarized and reviewed information on 122 explosions, and 55 waveforms in this data set, which contains recordings obtained in the course of more than 15 years. As the characteristics of recording instruments were changing during this period of time available information on instrument calibrations is also described and reviewed. The author also has attempted to describe the observed peculiarities of P-wave by using a simple source function and magnitude correction which take in attention such parameters as the velocity of longitudinal wave, density, moisture, gas content and depth of explosion. More detail analysis was conducted for the explosions conducted in salt as there is representative sample and they were observed on local distances.
- Research Organization:
- European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, FPO New York, NY (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 350562
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-359543/XAB; CNN: Contract F61708-94-W-0750; TRN: 91170720
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 11 Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
ARMENIA
AZERBAIJAN
BELARUS
ESTONIA
KAZAKHSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
MOLDOVA
REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
TAJIKISTAN
TURKMENISTAN
UKRAINE
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NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DETECTION
VERIFICATION
UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
SEISMIC DETECTION
SEISMIC P WAVES