Scaling relations of local magnitude versus moment magnitude for sequences of similar earthquakes in Switzerland

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 515-534

  Bethmann, Falko ^a   Deichmann, Nicholas ^a   Mai, P Martin ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; DOWNHOLES; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; LOW FREQUENCY; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PROPAGATION PATHS; Q-VALUES; RADIATION PATTERNS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SCALING RELATIONS; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STRESS DROP; SURFACE RECORDINGS; SWITZERLAND; SYNTHETIC SOURCES;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79953031629     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100179     Document Type: Article

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