The effect of the earthquake radiation pattern on mb - A study using aftershocks in the 1976 Gazli sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 523-530

  Bowers, David ^a   Douglas, Alan ^a  

^a AWE   (United Kingdom)

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EARTHQUAKE RADIATION; GAZLI EARTHQUAKE 1976;

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