RMS response of a one-dimensional half-space to SH

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 363-370

  Day, Steven M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SH WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 0030466422     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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