Bedrock structure in Adapazari, Turkey - A possible cause of severe damage by the 1999 Kociaeli earthquake

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 829-836

  Komazawa, Masao ^a   Morikawa, Hitoshi ^b   Nakamura, Kajuro ^c   Akamatsu, Junpei ^c   Nishimura, Keiichi ^d   Sawada, Sumio ^c   Erken, Ayfer ^e   Onalp, Akin ^f  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

1999 Kociaeli earthquake; 3D gravity basement; Basin edge effect; Bouger anamaly; Focusing of seismic waves; Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio ofmicroseisms; North Anatolia faults; Spatial auto correlationmethod

Indexed keywords

ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

BEDROCK STRUCTURES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AMPLIFICATION; BEDROCK; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOTION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ADAPAZARI; TURKEY;

EID: 0036817693     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00105-7     Document Type: Article

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