Relationships between peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, and modified mercalli intensity in California

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 557-564

  Wald, David J ^a   Quitoriano, Vincent ^b   Heaton, Thomas H ^b   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0001011237     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1586058     Document Type: Article

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