Spectral ratios for Mexico City from free-field recordings

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-295

  Reinoso, Eduardo ^a   Ordaz, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; NORMAL FAULT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 0001217029     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1586041     Document Type: Article

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