Regional moments, energy levels, and a new discriminant

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 281-304

  Zhao, Lian She ^a   Helmberger, Donald V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude; Earthquake; Energy discriminant; Explosion; Magnitude

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY DISCRIMINANT; EXPLOSION;

EID: 0029750008     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00876494     Document Type: Article

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