USGS "Did You Feel It?" internet-based macroseismic intensity maps

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 688-707

  Wald, David J ^a   Quitoriano, Vincent ^a   Worden, Bruce ^a   Hopper, Margaret ^a   Dewey, James W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERNET; SEISMICITY;

EID: 84855984795     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-5354     Document Type: Article

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