Seismic moment from regional surface-wave amplitudes: Applications to digital and analog seismograms

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 408-418

  Bernardi, Fabrizio ^a   Braunmiller, Jochen ^b   Giardini, Domenico ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; OBSERVATORIES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES;

AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENTS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC MOMENTS; SEISMOGRAMS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 18144393128     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040048     Document Type: Article

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