Toward reconciling magnitude discrepancies estimated from paleoearthquake data

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 555-565

  Carpenter, N Seth ^a,b   Payne, Suzette J ^a   Schafer, Annette L ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE;

EID: 84863577269     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.83.3.555     Document Type: Article

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