Seismic Coupling of Interface Modes in Sedimentary Basins: A Recipe for Disaster

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 14-21

  Lomnitz, Cinna ^a   Flores, Jorge ^a   Novaro, Octavio ^a   Seligman, Thomas H ^a,b   Esquivel, Raúl ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

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