Empirical distance attenuation and the local-magnitude scale for the central United States

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2137-2151

  Miao, Qingwen ^a   Langston, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL DISTANCE ATTENUATION; LOCAL-MAGNITUDE SCALE; PALEOEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC WAVEFORM; SEISMOGRAMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349150382     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060188     Document Type: Article

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