Regionalisation of seismic velocities for precise earthquake localisations in Kenya.
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Date
1996Author
Kataka, Milton Obote
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The essential part of this study has involved the determination of seismic velocities for
different regional waves using natural earthquake data. The analysis was based on
available catalogues. The whole territory of Kenya was taken into consideration for the
period 1964-1990. Travel time collected from 1964-1990 are based on the bulletins from
the International ,2.eismological Centre (ISC) whose accuracy in localisations have been
assumed to be better than the other reporting agencies for reasons mentioned in the text.
The data from the catalogues have been used to compute velocities by least-square fit
approach and correction of the Nairobi ML magnitudes has been done by correlating
them to the mblSc magnitudes.
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M.Sc. ThesisSponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi
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Master of Science Thesis