Instrumental intensity distribution for the Hector Mine, California, and the Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquakes: Comparison of two methods

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2145-2162

  Sokolov, Vladimir ^a   Wald, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MINES;

FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECTRUM (FAS); INSTRUMENTAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (PGA);

SEISMOLOGY;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; GROUND MOTION; HECTOR MINE EARTHQUAKE 1999; INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMIC METHOD;

CALIFORNIA; CHI-CHI; HECTOR MINE; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036704566     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010264     Document Type: Article

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