Bring Back Systematic Broadband Surface-Wave Magnitude Practice

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Editorial| May 13, 2022 Bring Back Systematic Broadband Surface‐Wave Magnitude Practice Domenico Di Giacomo Domenico Di Giacomo * 1International Seismological Centre, Pipers Lane, Thatcham, Berkshire, United Kingdom *Corresponding author: domenico@isc.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-8979 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2022) 93 (5): 2413–2417. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220094 Article history first online: 13 May 2022 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Domenico Di Giacomo; Bring Back Systematic Broadband Surface‐Wave Magnitude Practice. Seismological Research Letters 2022;; 93 (5): 2413–2417. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220094 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 Seismologists often use the surface‐wave magnitude Ms (Gutenberg, 1945) to estimate the size of an earthquake and as basis for different types of seismological studies. Those include, among others, earthquake catalogs (e.g., Abe, 1981; Pacheco and Sykes, 1992), magnitude conversion relationships (e.g., Ekström and Dziewonski, 1988; Scordilis, 2006), and tsunami earthquakes (Kanamori, 1972; Jia et al., 2022). The computation of Ms is relatively simple because it is based on the measurement of the amplitude and period of surface waves generated by shallow earthquakes (usually considered as such if... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.