Seismic engineering ground motion maps for jordan employing local attenuation relations

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-33

  Fahmi, Khalid J ^a   Malkawi, Abdallah I Husein ^b   Al Zoubi, Osama Y ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

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EID: 0002544248     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.1.23     Document Type: Article

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