Minimum magnitude of completeness in earthquake catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the Western United States, and Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 859-869

  Wiemer, S ^a   Wyss, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; MAGNITUDE; SEISMICITY;

JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033754570     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0119990114     Document Type: Article

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