Moment magnitude-local magnitude calibration for earthquakes in western Canada

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1994-2000

  Ristau, John ^a,b   Rogers, Garry C ^a,b   Cassidy, John F ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; HAZARDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MOMENT MAGNITUDE; MOMENT TENSOR ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC MOMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 28144451003     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050028     Document Type: Article

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