Study of weak and strong ground motion including nonlinearity from the Northridge, California, earthquake sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1411-1425

  Su, Feng ^a   Anderson, John G ^a   Zeng, Yuehua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; NONLINEARITY; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032439352     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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