Comparison of magnitude estimates for New Zealand earthquakes: Moment magnitude, local magnitude, and teleseismic body-wave magnitude

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1841-1852

  Ristau, John ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOMENT TENSOR ANALYSIS; MOMENT TENSORS; NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND REGION; SEISMIC DATAS; TELESEISMIC; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

SURVEYS; TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC DATA; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 69549108605     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080237     Document Type: Article

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