Earthquake magnitude calculation without saturation from the scaling of peak ground displacement

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5197-5205

  Melgar, Diego ^a   Crowell, Brendan W ^b   Geng, Jianghui ^c   Allen, Richard M ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^c   Riquelme, Sebastian ^d   Hill, Emma M ^e   Protti, Marino ^f   Ganas, Athanassios ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^g NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

GPS; ground motion; source scaling; tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMIC WAVES; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; GROUND MOTIONS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; PEAK GROUND DISPLACEMENT; SOURCE SCALING; TSUNAMI WARNING;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PEAK ACCELERATION; REAL TIME; TILT; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938125216     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064278     Document Type: Article

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