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Title: Searching for the corner seismic moment in worldwide data

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4938769· OSTI ID:22499105
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  1. CEAUL Lisbon and ESTG, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal)

In this paper the existence of the corner frequency value for the seismic moment distribution is investigated, analysing worldwide data. Pareto based distributions, usually considered as the most suitable to this type of data, are fitted to the most recent data, available in a global earthquake catalog. Despite the undeniable finite nature of the seismic moment data, we conclude that no corner frequency can be established considering the available data set.

OSTI ID:
22499105
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1702, Issue 1; Conference: ICCMSE 2015: International conference of computational methods in sciences and engineering 2015, Athens (Greece), 20-23 Mar 2015; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English