Characteristics of seismic source spectra from the Chia-Yi and Tai-Nan area of taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 415-446

  Huang, Win Gee ^a,b   Yeh, Yeong Tein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anelastic attenuation; Corner frequency; Seismic moment; Specific barrier model; Stress drop

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040318808     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.1999.10.2.415(T)     Document Type: Article

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