Peak factors of Mexican accelerograms: Evidence of a non-Gaussian amplitude distribution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 20083-20090

  Gusev, A A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROGRAM; AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PEAK FACTOR; STRONG MOTION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0030423730     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00810     Document Type: Article

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