Chinese national network magnitudes, their relation to NEIC magnitudes, and recommendations for new IASPEI magnitude standards

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1 B, 2007, Pages 114-127

  Bormann, Peter ^a   Liu, Ruifeng ^b   Ren, Xiao ^b   Gutdeutsch, Rudolf ^c   Kaiser, Diethelm ^d   Castellaro, Silvia ^e  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND RECORDS; CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL DATAS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MAGNITUDE MEASUREMENT; P WAVES; TIME WINDOWS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

CALIBRATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 34548078538     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060078     Document Type: Article

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