eprintid: 1461 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/14/61 datestamp: 2015-02-10 14:18:58 lastmod: 2017-02-08 12:21:41 status_changed: 2015-04-27 12:10:56 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Rydelek, Paul creators_name: Sacks, Selwyn corp_creators: Center for Earthquake Research and Information The University of Memphis 3890 Central Ave. Memphis, Tennessee 38152 (P.A.R.) corp_creators: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington 5241 Broad Branch Rd., NW Washington, D.C. 20015 (I.S.S.) title: Comment on "Minimum Magnitude of Completeness in Earthquake Catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the Western United States, and Japan," by Stefan Wiemer and Max Wyss ispublished: pub subjects: MP2_2 divisions: EPOS-P full_text_status: none abstract: Wiemer and Wyss [2000] (WW) have analyzed earthquake data from Japan in order to determined the magnitude level (Mc) at which seismic catalogs are complete. Regional and local maps that accurately show the spatial variation of Mc are important because they provide helpful guidance in planning for the future deployment of seismic stations. This comment is intended to point out several problems with WW's method of determining Mc and to demonstrate that ignoring temporal variations in seismicity can result in erroneous completeness maps. date: 2003-08 date_type: published publication: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America volume: 93 number: 4 publisher: Seismological Society of America pagerange: 1862-1867 id_number: doi:10.1785/0120020035 refereed: TRUE issn: 0037-1106 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120020035 access_IS-EPOS: limited owner: Publisher citation: Rydelek, Paul and Sacks, Selwyn (2003) Comment on "Minimum Magnitude of Completeness in Earthquake Catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the Western United States, and Japan," by Stefan Wiemer and Max Wyss. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 93 (4). pp. 1862-1867. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120020035