Consistency of magnitudes of the largest earthquakes of the first half of the 20(th) century determined on the basis of Gottingen and Zagreb Wiechert seismograms

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-25

  Allegretti, Ivo ^a   Herak, Davorka ^a   Herak, Marijan ^a   Duda, Seweryn J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earthquake magnitude; Historical earthquakes; Mechanical seismographs; Wiechert seismograph

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMOGRAPH; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 0034038405     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022053706688     Document Type: Article

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