Published May 10, 1979
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A Moment Magnitude Scale
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- Hanks, Thomas C.
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Kanamori, Hiroo
Abstract
The nearly coincident forms of the relations between seismic moment M_0 and the magnitudes M_L, M_S, and M_w imply a moment magnitude scale M = ⅔ log M_0 - 10.7 which is uniformly valid for 3 ≲ M_L ≲ 7, 5 ≲ M_s ≲ 7½, and M_w ≳ 7½.
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© 1979 American Geophysical Union. Received August 22, 1978; revised December 20, 1978; accepted January 8, 1979. First published: 10 May 1979. Article first published online: 20 September 2012. D. M. Boore, W. R. Thatcher, and R. L. Wesson critically read the manuscript and made several useful suggestions. This research was supported in part by NSF grant ENV 76-81816. Publication approved by the Director, U.S. Geological Survey. Contribution 3187, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.Attached Files
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