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spellingShingle Izutani, Yasuo, Kanamori, Hiroo, Geophysical Research Letters, Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
title Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
title_full Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
title_fullStr Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
title_full_unstemmed Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
title_short Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
title_sort scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in japan
title_unstemmed Scale‐dependence of seismic energy‐to‐moment ratio for strike‐slip earthquakes in Japan
topic General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001gl013402