A comparison of moment magnitude estimates for the European-Mediterranean and Italian regions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1733-1745

  Gasperini, Paolo ^a   Lolli, Barbara ^b   Vannucci, Gianfranco ^b   Boschi, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DATA SETS; DISCREPANT DATA; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; INVERSION METHODS; ITALIAN REGIONS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOMENT TENSORS; OFFSET CORRECTIONS; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TIME DOMAIN; US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY;

ESTIMATION; TENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84865308078     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05575.x     Document Type: Article

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