Site-specific issues for strong ground motions during the Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake of 17 August 1999, as inferred from array observations of microtremors and aftershocks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 448-465

  Kudo, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Okada, Hiroshi ^b   Özel, Oguz ^c   Erdik, Mustafa ^c   Sasatani, Tsutomu ^b   Higashi, Sadanori ^d   Takahashi, Masayoshi ^a   Yoshida, Kunikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SHOCK WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GROUND MOTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOTION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRONG MOTION;

TURKEY;

EID: 0036477355     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000812     Document Type: Article

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