Regional magnitude scaling, transportability, and Ms:mb discrimination at small magnitudes

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1951-2015

  Patton, H J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event discrimination; Regional phases; Seismic magnitudes; Transportability

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034754630     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8310-8_4     Document Type: Article

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