The local magnitude of the 18 October 1989 Santa Cruz Mountains Earthquake is ML=6.9
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 17 (10) , 1781-1784
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl017i010p01781
Abstract
We find that the local magnitude, ML, of the 18 October 1989 (U.T.) earthquake is 6.9, not 7.0 ‐ 7.1 as has tea reported. This value agrees with the moment magnitude, Mw = 6.9, found by Kanamori and Satake (1990).Keywords
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