The Kursk Submarine Disaster Insights from Seismic Data
Review of public information
- Newspapers, web sites, etc
- First submarine disaster with information & data disseminated over the Internet
Seismic recordings of the Kursk explosion
- Probably the first submarine disaster where more insight is gained from seismic data than acoustic data
- Initial small explosion
- Large main explosion (equivalent to a magnitude 3.5 earthquake)
- Later unidentified events
Modeling the seismic data to estimate depth and size of the explosion