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➔ Bakun and Wentworth method (BW97): Inverts observed intensities to locate epicenters and magnitudes by minimizing a cost function.

Bakun, W.H. (2006). Estimating locations and magnitudes of earthquakes in southern California from modified Mercalli intensities. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96(4A), 1278–1295.
➔ Application of BW97 with refinements to southern California.

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➔ Highlights multiple cases where earthquakes attributed to single epicenters were actually multi-segment ruptures.

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➔ Discusses macroseismic field modeling including epicenter estimation.

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➔ Pinpoints an epicentral region based on a grid of points, an attenuation relationship, and a table of IDPs. Demonstrated on data from 1927 Jericho Quake.