Understanding Seismograms by Constructing Numerical Models

Author: Helmberger, Donald V.

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 38, Number 1, 1974, pp. 26-29

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 38:1, October-November 1974.

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:38.1.models

Abstract

Studying seismograms is the first step in the scientific study of earthquakes and the interior of the earth. Now, seismologists are generating synthetic seismograms to help explain why observed seismograms look the way they do.

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