SEA96 - A new predictive relation for earthquake ground motions in extensional tectonic regimes

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 190-198

  Spudich, P ^a,b   Fletcher, J B ^a,b   Hellweg, M ^a,b   Boatwright, J ^a,b   Sullivan, C ^a,b   Joyner, W B ^a,b   Hanks, T C ^a,b   Boore, D M ^a,b   McGarr, A ^a,b   Baker, L M ^a,b   Lindh, A G ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA; EXTENSION; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEA96; TECTONICS;

EID: 0030884215     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.68.1.190     Document Type: Article

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