Probabilistic Programming for Transportable Source Characterization and Uncertainty Quantification of the North Korean Nuclear Tests 2006–2017

R Alfaro‐Diaz, J Kintner… - Seismological …, 2025 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We introduce a transportable technique to determine the yield and depth of burial (DOB)
from seismic source spectra of underground nuclear explosions. We demonstrate this …

Data release report for the source physics experiment phase II: Dry alluvium geology experiments (DAG-1 through DAG-4), Nevada National Security Site

JM Larotonda, MJ Townsend - 2021 - osti.gov
The Dry Alluvium Geology (DAG) project was Phase II of the Source Physics Experiment and
consisted of a series of four chemical explosive tests conducted in the same source hole on …

Seismoacoustic signatures observed during a long‐term deployment of infrasound sensors at the Nevada national security site

TC Wilson, FK Danneman Dugick… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earthquakes have repeatedly been shown to produce inaudible acoustic signals (< 20 Hz),
otherwise known as infrasound. These signals can propagate hundreds to thousands of …

Time‐Varying Moment‐Tensor Analysis with Application to Buried Chemical Explosions

JA Kintner, K Michael Cleveland… - Seismological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Source Physics Experiment (SPE) Phase I consisted of a series of over‐buried,
horizontally colocated chemical explosions at the Nevada National Security Site. Seismic …

Spatially Dependent Seismic Wavefield Scattering from an Underground Chemical Explosion: Analysis of the Source Physics Experiment Dry Alluvium Geology Large …

A Darrh, M Bodmer… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Explosion sources have been observed to generate significant shear‐wave energy despite
their isotropic nature. To investigate this phenomenon, we conduct an analysis of the …

Seismic Characterization of Subsurface Structures at Rock Valley, Nevada

D Li, K Gao, T Chen, L Huang… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Source Physics Experiment (SPE) aims at improving explosion monitoring
techniques by investigating source characteristics of chemical explosions in geologic …

Performance of synthetic DAS as a function of array geometry

TW Luckie, RW Porritt - Seismica, 2024 - osti.gov
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can record acoustic wavefields at high sampling rates
and with dense spatial resolution difficult to achieve with seismometers. Using optical …

Evaluation of Potential DAS Array Geometries for the Source Physics Experiment, Phase III

TW Luckie, RW Porritt - 2023 - osti.gov
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a rapidly develo** technology that can record
acoustic wavefields at high sampling rates and with dense spatial spacing difficult to achieve …

Earthquake Relocation in Rock Valley, NV Using Absolute and Differential Times

LA Preston - 2023 - osti.gov
In this brief report we document algorithmic choices and updates to our code related to the
earthquake relocation portion of our tomographic imaging algorithm. We show results of …

Identification of a Shear Release Mechanism in a Jointed Medium caused by Chemical Explosions

DW Steedman, CR Bradley - ARMA US Rock Mechanics …, 2020 - onepetro.org
The six declared nuclear tests of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea defy current
earthquake/explosion discrimination methods that rely on relative energy contained in body …