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It has been argued that the dominant period T p derived from the initial seconds of a seismogram, hence only depending on the initial phases of earthquake rupture, seems to scale with the final size of the earthquake. We provide a physical interpretation for the observed scaling and explain how the final earthquake size could be controlled by the initial phase of rupture.
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Nielsen, S. (2007). Can Earthquake Size be Controlled by the Initial Seconds of Rupture?. In: Gasparini, P., Manfredi, G., Zschau, J. (eds) Earthquake Early Warning Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72241-0_2
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