Assessing the Quality of Earthquake Catalogues: Estimating the Magnitude of Completeness and Its Uncertainty

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

• Publication date

  2005-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geology

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  DOI 10.1785/0120040007
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