Duration magnitude scale and site residuals for Northern Morocco

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 1061-1080

  Mouayn, Isaam ^a,b   Tadili, Ben Aissa ^c   Ait Brahim, Lahsen ^a   Ramdani, Mohamed ^b   Limouri, Mohamed ^a   Jabour, Nacer ^d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b Departement de Physique du Globe ^*  (Morocco)

^c Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^d Laboratoire de Géophysique   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Duration; Magnitude; Northern Morocco; Short period; Site residuals; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 2342605965     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2497-7     Document Type: Article

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