Magnitude scale and quantification of earthquakes

1983/04/01 by Hiroo Kanamori · 266 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #Earthquake magnitude #Geology #Geometry #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Induced seismicity #Magnitude (astronomy) #Mathematics #Maximum magnitude #Moment magnitude scale #Physics #Richter magnitude scale #Scale (ratio) #Scaling #Seismology #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/0040-1951(83)90273-1

published in Tectonophysics 93(3-4), 185-199 (Elsevier BV)

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Citations

• An instrumental earthquake magnitude scale*
• Determination of earthquake source parameters from waveform data for studies of global and regional seismicity
• Magnitudes of large shallow earthquakes from 1904 to 1980
• Size of great earthquakes of 1837–1974 inferred from tsunami data
• The energy release in great earthquakes
• Source parameters of southern California earthquakes
• Amplitudes of surface waves and magnitudes of shallow earthquakes*
• Amplitudes of P, PP, and S and magnitude of shallow earthquakes*

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