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waves, namely shallow earthquakes at distances >100 km from the seismic receiver, corrections must be added to the computed value to compensate for epicenters deeper than 50 km or less than 20° from the receiver.
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For official use by the Chinese government, the two horizontal displacements must be measured at the same time or within 1/8 of a period; if the two displacements have different periods, a weighted sum must be used:
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Several versions of this equation were derived throughout the 20th century, with minor variations in the constant values. Since the original form of
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XU Shaokui, LU Yuanzhong, GUO Lucan, CHEN Shanpei, XU Zhonghuai, XIAO Chengye, FENG Yijun (许绍燮、陆远忠、郭履灿、陈培善、许忠淮、肖承邺、冯义钧) (1999-04-26).
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to develop magnitude scales based on teleseismic observations of earthquakes. Two scales were developed, one based on surface waves,
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William L. Ellsworth, The San Andreas Fault System, California (USGS Professional Paper 1515), 1990–1991
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Bath, M (1966). "Earthquake energy and magnitude". In Ahrens, L. H.; Press, F.; Runcorn, S. (eds.).
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that travel along the uppermost layers of the Earth. This magnitude scale is related to the
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CHEN Junjie, CHI Tianfeng, WANG Junliang, CHI Zhencai (陈俊杰, 迟天峰, 王军亮, 迟振才) (2002-01-01).
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Kanamori, Hiroo (April 1983). "Magnitude scale and quantification of earthquakes".
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Vladimír Tobyáš and Reinhard Mittag proposed to relate surface wave magnitude to
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Other formulas include three revised formulae proposed by CHEN Junjie et al.:
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Recorded magnitudes of earthquakes through the mid 20th century, commonly
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The successful development of the local-magnitude scale encouraged
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throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It is currently used in
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The formula to calculate surface wave magnitude is:
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