Amplitudes, polarity and time of peaks of strong ground motion during the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 235-258

  Todorovska, M I ^a   Trifunac, M D ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Northridge earthquake; Peak ground acceleration; Peak ground displacement; Peak ground velocity; Peak polarity; Strong ground motion

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PEAK GROUND DISPLACEMENT; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PEAK POLARITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA; GROUND MOTION; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994;

EID: 0031172353     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(97)00002-X     Document Type: Article

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