The accuracy of soil response estimates using soil-to-rock spectral ratios

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 519-523

  Beresnev, Igor A ^a   Wen, Kuo Liang ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE RESPONSE; SOIL/ROCK SPECTRA;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0030457079     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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