Analysis of Earthquake Recordings Obtained from the Seafloor Earthquake Measurement System (SEMS) Instruments Deployed off the Coast of Southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 260-274

  Boore, David M ^a   Smith, Charles E ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

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