Estimation of seismic site response in the Tangshan area, China, using deep underground records

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1065-1078

  Matsunami, Koji ^a   Zhang, Wenbo ^b   Irikura, Kojiro ^a   Xie, Li Li ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; ROCKS;

SEISMIC SITE RESPONSE;

SEISMOLOGY;

BOREHOLE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION;

CHINA; TANGSHAN;

EID: 0041738917     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020054     Document Type: Article

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