Site response, shallow shear-wave velocity, and wave propagation at the San Jose, California, dense seismic array

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 443-464

  Hartzell, Stephen ^a   Carver, David ^a   Williams, Robert A ^a   Harmsen, Stephen ^a   Zerva, Aspasia ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PLANE-WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038355363     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020080     Document Type: Article

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