Locally derived earthquake ground motion attenuation relations for Jordan and conterminous areas

Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 309-319

  Husein Malkawi, Abdallah I ^a   Fahmi, Khalid J ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Seismic response; Seismic risk

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CHARACTERIZATION; EARTHQUAKE; ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY; GROUND MOTION; INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMIC DESIGN;

JORDAN;

EID: 0030439471     PISSN: 04812085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.QJEGH.1996.029.P4.05     Document Type: Article

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