A moment magnitude scale

American Geophysical Union (AGU) - Tập 84 Số B5 - Trang 2348-2350 - 1979
Thomas C. Hanks1, Hiroo Kanamori2
1U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
2Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Tóm tắt

The nearly coincident forms of the relations between seismic moment M0 and the magnitudes ML, MS, and Mw imply a moment magnitude scale M = ⅔ log M0 ‐ 10.7 which is uniformly valid for 3 ≲ ML ≲ 7, 5 ≲ Ms ≲ 7½, and Mw ≳ 7½.

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