The ML scale in central California

Author:

Bakun William H.1,Joyner William B.1

Affiliation:

1. U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Road, Mail Stop 977 Menlo Park, California 94025

Abstract

Abstract Nine hundred fifty-seven maximum zero-to-peak Wood-Anderson amplitudes A (synthesized or recorded) from 40 horizontal-component seismographs (20 sites) with 0 ≲ Δ ≲ 400 km for 106 earthquakes with 18 ≦ log M0 ≦ 22.3 in central California have been fit in a least-squares sense using the parametric form log A ij = − n log R ij − K R ij − ∑ l = 1 40 S l δ ij + ∑ k = 1 106 C k δ ik where Aij = A (mm) for earthquake i on seismograph component j, δik = Kronecker delta, R = hypocentral distance, and n, K, Sl, and Ck are variables determined by regression analysis. The Ck are a magnitude measure, and the Sl are station corrections constrained to have zero average. We find n = 1.018 ± 0.107 and K = 0.00291 ± 0.00070 km−1. Setting n = 1, appropriate for body-wave propagation in homogeneous media, yields K = 0.00301 ± 0.00036 km−1. Following Richter's definition of an ML = 3 earthquake as one for which A = 1 mm at Δ = 100 km and S1 = 0, we express the local magnitude ML as ML = log A − log A0, where -log A0 = n log (R/100) + K (R − 100) + 3. For 30 ≲ Δ ≲ 475 km, the -log A0 values using n = 1 and K = 0.00301 km−1 are within 0.15 of Richter's values for southern California. For Δ ≲ 30 km, Richter's values are significantly smaller than those obtained here, a result consistent with recent studies of −log A0 for southern California. Our results suggest that the ML scale as commonly used underestimates the sizes of small shocks that are predominantly recorded at Δ ≲ 30 km.

Publisher

Seismological Society of America (SSA)

Subject

Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics

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