Abstract
Seismic energy is distributed across a wide frequency band so that
limited bandwidth recording can lead to substantial underestimates
of the radiated seismic energy or introduce an artificial upper bound
of radiated energy. We estimate an adjustment factor to account for
the probable missing energy and apply it to three previously studied
datasets with limited recording bandwidth. We find that this adjustment,together
with accounting for possibly missing events, eliminates much of the
moment dependence of radiated energy found previously. We obtain
a nearly constant ratio of radiated energy to seismic moment, 3x10^-5,
or 1 MPa of apparent stress drop, over 17 orders of seismic moment.
This suggests that deviation from similarity of the energy radiation
for seismic events essentially the entire observable range of earthquake
size may not yet be resolved.
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