The December 1872 Washington state earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3239-3258

  Bakun, William H ^a   Haugerud, Ralph A ^b   Hopper, Margaret G ^c   Ludwin, Ruth S ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKE INTESITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; HISTORICAL RECORD; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0036951751     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010274     Document Type: Article

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