Relationships among magnitudes and seismic moment of earthquakes in the Taiwan region

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 951-973

  Chen, Kou Cheng ^a   Huang, Win Gee ^a   Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Magnitude scales; Relationship; Seismic moment

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 39149099209     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2007.18.5.951(T)     Document Type: Article

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