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Open-File Report 99-517

Magnitude versus area for major strike-slip faults, with the various fits of Wells and Coppersmith (1994) and Somerville et al. (1999).

 

Figure C1. Moment magnitudes, M, and rupture areas, A, for large California earthquakes analyzed by Wells and Coppersmith (1994), with various fits to the data as explained in the text.

 

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