Separation of site effects and structural focusing in Santa Monica, California: A study of high-frequency weak motions from earthquakes and blasts recorded during the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3134-3151

  Baher, Shirley ^a   Davis, Paul M ^a   Fuis, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETONATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SEISMIC STATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA MONICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036951241     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010168     Document Type: Article

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