Ground motion characteristics of the November 1995 Aqaba earthquake

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 343-351

  Saffarini, Hassan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Ground motion; Seismic; Soil amplification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TECTONICS;

GROUND MOTIONS; SOIL AMPLIFICATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMICITY; SOIL DYNAMICS;

JORDAN;

EID: 0033986854     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00109-6     Document Type: Article

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