Empirical response spectral attenuation relations for shallow crustal earthquakes

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 94-109

  Abrahamson, N A ^a   Silva, W J ^b  

^a PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b Pacific Engineering and Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SHALLOW;

EID: 0030929096     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.68.1.94     Document Type: Article

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