Body Wave Magnitudes and Locations of French Underground Explosions at the Mururoa Test Site,

Abstract

Since 1975 the French have conducted underground nuclear weapon tests beneath the Mururoa atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago in the Southern Pacific. A least squares joint estimate of origin time and epicentre together with a least squares joint estimate of magnitude is presented for presumed explosions in this area. These are based on data taken from bulletins of the International Seismological Centre. Some seismograms, recorded in Canada, are included to illustrate the nature of the P waves from these presumed explosions. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA166248

Entities

People

  • P. D. Marshall
  • Penelope J. Warburton
  • R. C. Lilwall

Organizations

  • Atomic Weapons Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Explosions
  • Foreign Languages
  • Iterations
  • Language
  • Least Squares Method
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Residuals
  • Seismic Waves
  • Underground Explosions
  • Waves
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Seismology
  • Urban Planning and Geography.