A Method for Rapid Determination of Moment Magnitude Mw for Moderate to Large Earthquakes from the Near-Field Spectra of Strong-Motion Records (MWSYNTH)

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1827-1840

  Delouis, Bertrand ^a   Charlety, Jean ^a   Vallée, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FAR-FIELD; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; LOW FREQUENCY; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NEAR-FIELD; RAPID DETERMINATION; RUPTURE MODELS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL VALUE; STRONG-MOTION; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME WINDOWS;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; EARTHQUAKES; RANGE FINDING; WINDOWS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

BODY WAVE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 69549138418     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080234     Document Type: Article

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