Magnitude conversion problem for the Turkish earthquake data

Natural Hazards

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-352

  Deniz, Aykut ^a   Yucemen, M Semih ^b  

^a Technological Engineering Services Co Ltd   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake magnitude conversion; Moment magnitude; Orthogonal regression; Standard least squares regression

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC MOMENT;

TURKEY;

EID: 78049350371     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9531-8     Document Type: Article

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