Short note: Magnitude scaling of prehistorical Earthquakes in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone of the Central United States

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 637-641

  Street, Ron L ^a   Bauer, Robert A ^b   Woolery, Edward W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; LIQUEFACTION; SEISMOLOGY;

LIQUEFACTION CURVE; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SEISMIC ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84977982641     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.75.5.637     Document Type: Article

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