Relations between the seismogenic fault parameters and earthquake magnitude

Izvestiya - Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1011-1022

  Strom, A L ^a   Nikonov, A A ^b  

^a Hydr Engineering Project Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

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