Influence of source radiation patterns on globally observed short-period magnitude estimates (mb)

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 342-347

  Schweitzer, Johannes ^a,b   Kværna, Tormod ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; MAGNITUDE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 0032776832     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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