Affiliation:
1. Research Station RAS in Bishkek
2. Sadovsky Institute of Geospheres Dynamics RAS
Abstract
The paper presents information on the registration of underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) of the Semipalatinsk test site (STS) at the Balapan site (Bal) from 1969 to 1988. Two stations of the Unified Seismic Observation Service (ESSN USSR) - Uzhgorod (UZH) and Vladivostok (VLA), since the epicentral distances for them are closest to each other Δ~36°. Records of the register of specific UNEs have been preserved in the archives of the Institute of Geospheres Dynamics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician M.A. Sadovsky (IDG RAS). Body wave magnitudes (mb) range from 5.6 to 6.2. For them, at equidistant stations, the travel time of the P-wave (tp0) was obtained. Corrections were made to the data on the registration and travel time curves were formed for the UZH-Bal, VLA-Bal and local traces for the range Δ~36.0-36.6°. Velocity Vp is equal ~10 km/s.
Publisher
Republican State Enterprise "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
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