Aspects of characteristics of near-fault ground motions of the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) earthquake

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 507-519

  Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a   Huang, Ming Wey ^a   Chen, Kou Cheng ^a   Hwang, Ruey Der ^b   Chang, Wen Yen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Applied Information   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accelerogram; Amplitude; Frequency; Peak ground acceleration; Peak ground velocity; Spectra; Waveform

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FREQUENCIES; SEISMOLOGY;

PEAK GROUND ACCELERATIONS (PGA);

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0036753968     PISSN: 02533839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533839.2002.9670726     Document Type: Article

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