Local magnitude scale for the Ethiopian Plateau

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2341-2348

  Brazier, R A ^a   Miao, Q ^b   Nyblade, A A ^a   Ayele, A ^c   Langston, C A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE; ANDERSON; ARRIVAL TIMES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; ETHIOPIA; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND TRUTHS; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCES; LOCAL MAGNITUDES; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC; STATION CORRECTIONS; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE ATTENUATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; ETHIOPIAN RIFT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 54949154868     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070266     Document Type: Article

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