Earthquake ground-motion scaling in central Mexico between 0.7 and 7 Hz

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 397-413

  Ortega, Roberto ^a   Herrmann, Robert B ^b   Quintanar, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University School of Science and Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION SCALING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; GROUND MOTION; SEISMICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

(CENTRAL); MEXICO;

EID: 0038693744     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010279     Document Type: Article

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