Suitability of rapid energy magnitude determinations for emergency response purposes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 361-374

  Di Giacomo, Domenico ^a,b   Parolai, Stefano ^a   Bormann, Peter ^a   Grosser, Helmut ^a   Saul, Joachim ^a   Wang, Rongjiang ^a   Zschau, Jochen ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake source observations; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; DATA SET; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAULT PLANE; GREEN FUNCTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 73049098721     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04416.x     Document Type: Article

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