Variation of regional seismic discriminants with surface topographic roughness in the Western United States

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 714-725

  Zhang, Tian Run ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Schwartz, Susan ^a   Walter, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATH EFFECT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHIC ROUGHNESS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030436975     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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