On Quantification of the Earthquake Source

Research Article| March 01, 2001 On Quantification of the Earthquake Source Yehuda Ben-Zion Yehuda Ben-Zion Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Yehuda Ben-Zion Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740 Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2001 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2001) 72 (2): 151–152. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.72.2.151 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Yehuda Ben-Zion; On Quantification of the Earthquake Source. Seismological Research Letters 2001;; 72 (2): 151–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.72.2.151 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search The opinion article by Jones (Seism. Res. Lett.71, 395-396, 2000) and follow-up communications in Seismological Research Letters (71, 670-672, 2000) discuss pros and cons of seismic moment vs. magnitude as scaling sizes for the earthquake source and possible related units. While the moment clearly provides a better physical quantification of the earthquake source than magnitude, it has a simple and easily fixable shortcoming that stems from the inclusion of rigidity in the definition of the moment. The basic problem is that linear elastic waves generated by a slip source have no information on material properties at... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.