First application of the new IASPEI teleseismic magnitude standards to data of the China national seismographic network

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1868-1891

  Bormann, Peter ^a   Liu, Ruifeng ^b   Xu, Zhiguo ^b   Ren, Kexin ^b   Zhang, Liwen ^b   Wendt, Siegfried ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND RECORDS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION; MAGNITUDE SCALE; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; RAYLEIGH; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC SCALING; STANDARD CALIBRATION; SURFACE-WAVE; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

EARTHQUAKES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STANDARDS;

SURFACE WAVES;

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAPH; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 69249139842     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080010     Document Type: Article

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