49. Kagan, Y. Y., 1997. Seismic moment-frequency relation for shallow earthquakes: Regional comparison, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 2835-2852.

Moment-frequency relation - manuscript text (in PostScript)

Moment-frequency relation - tables (in PostScript)

Its figures (in PostScript): Fig. 1; Fig. 2; Fig. 3a; Fig. 3b; Fig. 3c; Fig. 3d; Fig. 3e; Fig. 4; Fig. 5; Fig. 6.

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Corrections, PS file

Pacheco, J. F., C. H. Scholz, and L. R. Sykes, 1992. Changes in frequency-size relationship from small to large earthquakes, Nature, 355, 71-73, PDF file 0.36 Mb.

PREVIOUS AND SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATIONS ON THE SAME TOPIC:

11. Knopoff, L., Y. Y. Kagan, and R. Knopoff, 1982. b-values for fore- and aftershocks in real and simulated earthquake sequences, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 72, 1663-1676. (FMS ms file)

35. Kagan, Y. Y., 1993. Statistics of characteristic earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 83, 7-24. (TEDI ms file)

46. Sornette, D., L. Knopoff, Y. Y. Kagan, and C. Vanneste, 1996. Rank-ordering statistics of extreme events: Application to the distribution of large earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 13,883-13,893.

60. Kagan Y. Y. "Universality of the seismic moment-frequency relation", Pure Appl. Geoph. (PAGEOPH), 155, 537-573, 1999.

64. Kagan, Y. Y., and F. Schoenberg "Estimation of the Upper Cutoff Parameter for the Tapered Pareto Distribution", (David Vere-Jones' Festschrift, edited by D. J. Daley), J. Appl. Probab., 38A, 158-175, 2001.

65. Kagan Y. Y. "Seismic moment distribution revisited: I. Statistical results", Geophys. J. Int., 148, 520-541, 2002.

67. Kagan Y. Y. "Seismic moment distribution revisited: II. Moment conservation principle", Geophys. J. Int., 149, 731-754, 2002.

75. Bird, P., and Y. Y. Kagan, 2004. "Plate-tectonic analysis of shallow seismicity: apparent boundary width, beta, corner magnitude, coupled lithosphere thickness, and coupling in seven tectonic settings", Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 94(6), 2380-2399.