Assessment of the site conditions of precariously balanced rocks in the Mojave Desert, southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2139-2144

  Stirling, Mark W ^a   Anooshehpoor, Abdolrasool ^a   Brune, James N ^a   Biasi, Glenn P ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY; ROCKS;

ROCK SITES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; ROCK; SITE EFFECT; VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036704544     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010221     Document Type: Article

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