Long-distance detective work through analysis of seismic records.
Seismology is a keystone of the world's effort to monitor nuclear weapons tests.
The death agony of the Russian submarine
Kursk was heard by the world seismograph network.
"Air seismology" or the study of ultralow-frequency sound is a close relative of forensic seismology; an article from your About Geology Guide.
The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory posted this analysis of the seismograph records from the 6 August 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine collapse, a magnitude-3.9 event that killed six coal miners in Utah.
The British agency for forensic seismology was a pioneer in the field; here's its home page.
A thorough article, with illustrations, about the test-ban-related work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The "blue book" that the IRIS Consortium prepared for the U.S. Congress in 1994 covers "the role of seismology in deterring the development of nuclear weapons."
A 1988 report by the highly regarded Office of Technology Assessment provides thorough basics of this crucial problem.
