Empirical ground-motion relations for subduction-zone earthquakes and their application to Cascadia and other regions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1703-1729

  Atkinson, Gail M ^a   Boore, David M ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GROUND MOTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL TYPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CASCADIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042306861     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020156     Document Type: Article

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