Determination of earthquake early warning parameters, τc and Pd, for southern California

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 711-717

  Wu, Yih Min ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b   Allen, Richard M ^c   Hauksson, Egill ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake early warning; Magnitude; P waves; Seismic hazard mitigation

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547212360     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03430.x     Document Type: Article

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