Local magnitude determinations for intermountain seismic belt earthquakes from broadband digital data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 557-574

  Pechmann, James C ^a   Nava, Susan J ^a,b   Terra, Fabia M ^a,c   Bernier, Julie C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b ENSCO INC   (United States)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TELEMETERING;

BROADBAND DIGITAL DATA; BROADBAND DIGITAL TELEMETRY STATIONS; INTERMOUNTAIN SEISMIC BELT EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; CODA; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC MOMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 34547604912     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060114     Document Type: Article

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