Complementing regional moment magnitudes to GCMT: a perspective from the rebuilt International Seismological Centre Bulletin

Di Giacomo, Domenico; Harris, James; Storchak, Dmitry A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1957-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1957-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1957-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Review article

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10 May 2021

Review article |

| 10 May 2021

Complementing regional moment magnitudes to GCMT: a perspective from the rebuilt International Seismological Centre Bulletin

Domenico Di Giacomo, James Harris, and Dmitry A. Storchak

Data sets

An Mw list extracted from the ISC Bulletin (1964-2017) D. Di Giacomo and J. Harris https://doi.org/10.31905/J2W2M64S

Short summary

We provide a comprehensive overview of the content in terms of moment magnitude (M_w) in the Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre (ISC). M_w is the preferred magnitude to characterize earthquakes in various research topics (e.g. Earth seismicity rates) and other applications (e.g. seismic hazard). We describe first the contribution of global agencies and agencies operating at a regional scale and then discuss features of M_w via different sets of comparisons.