Representing earthquake intensity-magnitude relationship with a nonlinear function

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 1 SUPPL. A, 1996, Pages 73-78

  Cavallini, Fabio ^a   Rebez, Alessandro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; INTENSITY; INTENSITY/MAGNITUDE RELATIONSHIP; MAGNITUDE; NON-LINEAR FUNCTION; SIGMOID FUNCTION;

EID: 0030455190     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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