Duration magnitude uncertainty due to seismic noise: Inferences on the temporal pattern of G-R b-value at Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1847-1853

  Del Pezzo, Edoardo ^a   Bianco, Francesca ^a   Saccorotti, Gilberto ^a  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

SEISMIC NOISE;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC NOISE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CAMPANIA; ITALY; MOUNT VESUVIUS;

EID: 0242369015     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020222     Document Type: Article

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