| 1 | New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1994 | 5,223 |
| 2 | Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1985 | 3,945 |
| 3 | Frequency of earthquakes in California* | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1944 | 3,136 |
| 4 | A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2000 | 2,686 |
| 5 | Internal deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1992 | 2,628 |
| 6 | Engineering seismic risk analysis | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1968 | 2,295 |
| 7 | The dispersion of surface waves on multilayered media* | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1953 | 1,618 |
| 8 | Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1998 | 1,573 |
| 9 | Empirical Relations between Elastic Wavespeeds and Density in the Earth's Crust | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2005 | 1,433 |
| 10 | Minimum Magnitude of Completeness in Earthquake Catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the Western United States, and Japan | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2000 | 1,341 |
| 11 | Ground-motion characteristics estimated from spectral ratio between horizontal and vertical components of microtremor | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1998 | 1,265 |
| 12 | The frequency-magnitude relation of microfracturing in rock and its relation to earthquakes | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1968 | 1,259 |
| 13 | Dynamics of an expanding circular fault | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1976 | 1,258 |
| 14 | Is the sequence of earthquakes in Southern California, with aftershocks removed, Poissonian? | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1974 | 1,210 |
| 15 | The stresses around a fault or crack in dissimilar media | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1959 | 1,089 |
| 16 | Model and theoretical seismicity | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1967 | 1,016 |
| 17 | The behavior of inverted pendulum structures during earthquakes | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1963 | 996 |
| 18 | The spectral element method: An efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1998 | 963 |
| 19 | Quantitative Classification of Near-Fault Ground Motions Using Wavelet Analysis | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2007 | 927 |
| 20 | Automatic earthquake recognition and timing from single traces | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1978 | 892 |
| 21 | A technique for the analysis of transient seismic signals | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1969 | 864 |
| 22 | Assessing the Quality of Earthquake Catalogues: Estimating the Magnitude of Completeness and Its Uncertainty | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2005 | 836 |
| 23 | Absorbing boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave equations | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1977 | 817 |
| 24 | Simulating seismic wave propagation in 3D elastic media using staggered-grid finite differences | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1996 | 816 |
| 25 | Site effect evaluation using spectral ratios with only one station | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1993 | 812 |
| 26 | Peak horizontal acceleration and velocity from strong-motion records including records from the 1979 imperial valley, California, earthquake | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1981 | 787 |
| 27 | Inversion of strong ground motion and teleseismic waveform data for the fault rupture history of the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1983 | 787 |
| 28 | An instrumental earthquake magnitude scale* | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1935 | 771 |
| 29 | Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1956 | 768 |
| 30 | A simple method to calculate Green's functions for elastic layered media | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1981 | 746 |
| 31 | Fault Slip Distribution of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake, Estimated from Satellite Radar and GPS Measurements | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2002 | 722 |
| 32 | A Mathematical Representation of Near-Fault Ground Motions | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2003 | 722 |
| 33 | A fast algorithm for two-point seismic ray tracing | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1987 | 698 |
| 34 | Double-Difference Tomography: The Method and Its Application to the Hayward Fault, California | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2003 | 680 |
| 35 | Site amplifications for generic rock sites | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1997 | 672 |
| 36 | Ambient Noise Levels in the Continental United States | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2004 | 663 |
| 37 | Inversion of complex body waves—III | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1991 | 635 |
| 38 | Displacement and Geometrical Characteristics of Earthquake Surface Ruptures: Issues and Implications for Seismic-Hazard Analysis and the Process of Earthquake Rupture | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2008 | 620 |
| 39 | Earthquake Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Eastern North America | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2006 | 610 |
| 40 | Attenuation Relations of Strong Ground Motion in Japan Using Site Classification Based on Predominant Period | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2006 | 599 |
| 41 | Spatial and temporal distribution of slip for the 1992 Landers, California, earthquake | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1994 | 573 |
| 42 | The character of high-frequency strong ground motion | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1981 | 558 |
| 43 | The displacement fields of inclined faults | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1971 | 555 |
| 44 | Stochastic Finite-Fault Modeling Based on a Dynamic Corner Frequency | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2005 | 552 |
| 45 | Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration* | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1942 | 552 |
| 46 | Stiffness matrices for layered soils | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1981 | 552 |
| 47 | Ground-motion relations for eastern North America | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1995 | 550 |
| 48 | The standard error of the magnitude-frequencybvalue | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1982 | 528 |
| 49 | Earthquake Fault Scaling: Self-Consistent Relating of Rupture Length, Width, Average Displacement, and Moment Release | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2010 | 527 |
| 50 | Total energy and energy spectral density of elastic wave radiation from propagating faults | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1964 | 499 |