Earthquake magnitude estimation from peak amplitudes of very early seismic signals on strong motion records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Zollo, Aldo ^a   Lancieri, Maria ^a   Nielsen, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DYNAMIC STRESS; ELASTIC ENERGY; FRACTURE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; P-WAVE; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME; S-WAVE; SLIP; STRESS; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 34548604307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027795     Document Type: Article

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