Evaluation of the seismic moment of the April 20, 2013 Lushan earthquake

Earthquake Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 169-177

  Hu, Xiaogang ^a   Jiang, Ying ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Free oscillations; Moment tensor solution; Seismic moment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902546336     PISSN: 16744519     EISSN: 18678777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-013-0029-9     Document Type: Article

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