Changes of reporting rates in the southern California earthquake catalog, introduced by a new definition of ML

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1733-1742

  Tormann, Thessa ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; FIRST YEAR; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MAGNITUDE SCALE; OVERLAPPING DATA; PREVIOUS YEAR; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SELECTED EXAMPLES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKES;

LIBRARIES;

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955369013     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090124     Document Type: Article

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