MAGNITUDE AND ENERGY OF EARTHQUAKES

作者：B. Gutenberg, Charles Francis Richter · 发表于：Annals of Geophysics · 年份：1956 · DOI：10.4401/ag-5590 · 被引用次数：817 · 研究领域：Earthquake Detection and Analysis

This paper is in continuation of previous investigations (Gutenberg and Richter, Paper I, 1942; Paper I I , 1956). The earthquake magnitude has statistical and other uses independent of the relation between magnitude and energy. Indeed, it is possible that there is no complete one-to-one correlation between magnitude and energy for large and complex tectonic events. Even so, a mean or representative relation is a legitimate object of inquiry.