Deterministic vs. undeterministic earthquake magnitude based on it’s rupture!!

The dominant rupture process theory implies that we can’t determine the earthquake magnitude from it’s rupture initiation. However, the new findings with the following paper suggest that we could determine the earthquake magnitude by studying the frequency content for the first few seconds of the rupture.

Please visit the paper by the following link:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7065/abs/nature04214.html

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