A further note on earthquake size distributions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1325-1326

  Scholz, Christopher H ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

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EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; FAULTING;

EID: 0032464956     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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