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Open-File Report 03-377

Empirical Modified Mercalli Intensity Site Corrections for Towns in Eastern North America

By W. H. Bakun and M. G. Hopper

Abstract

Modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) assignments for earthquakes in eastern North America (ENA) were used by Bakun et al. (2003) and Bakun and Hopper (in press) to develop models for estimating the location and moment magnitude M of earthquakes in ENA from MMI observations. The MMI empirical site corrections developed and used by Bakun et al. (2003) and Bakun and Hopper (in press) are listed in this Open-file Report.

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