MTSU: Recovering seismic moments from tsunameter records

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 355-378

  Okal, Emile A ^a   Titov, Vasily V ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnitudes; Normal mode theory; Tsunami; Tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC WAVE; SENSOR; TSUNAMI;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34147129232     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0180-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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