Precarious-rock constraints on ground motion from historic and recent earthquakes in Southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2602-2611

  Brune, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EXTRAPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PRECARIOUS ROCKS;

ROCKS;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; PALEOSEISMICITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TOPPLING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038509003     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000606     Document Type: Article

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