Magnitude of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake reestimated using seismological and geomorphological methods

Reported magnitudes ranging between 7.8 and 8.7 highlight a confusion about the true size of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, the largest earthquake recorded in the northeast Tibetan Plateau. We compiled a global data set of previously unlooked‐at historical seismograms and performed modern computationa...

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Main Authors: Ou, Q, Kulikova, G, Yu, J, Elliott, A, Parsons, B, Walker, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union 2020