Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1133-1155

  Travasarou, Thaleia ^a   Bray, Jonathan D ^a   Abrahamson, Norman A ^b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arias intensity; Attenuation relationship; Earthquake; Ground motion; Performance; Point source model

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMIC SLOPE STABILITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 0037860868     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.270     Document Type: Article

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