Empirical path and station corrections for surface-wave magnitude, Ms, using a global network

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 379-390

  Selby, Neil D ^a   Bowers, David ^a   Marshall, Peter D ^a   Douglas, Alan ^a  

^a AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake magnitude; Rayleigh waves; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 0344898378     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02024.x     Document Type: Article

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