Empirical site response evaluations: Case studies in Israel

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 447-463

  Gitterman, Y ^a   Zaslavsky, Y ^a   Shapira, A ^a   Shtivelman, V ^a  

^a The Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Microtremor measurements; Resonant frequency; Site effect; Spatial correlation; Spectral ratio

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSION (WAVES); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SITE SELECTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRIANGULATION;

MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL RATIO;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC ZONATION; SITE EFFECT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0030268217     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0267-7261(96)00019-X     Document Type: Article

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