2001 Bhuj, India, earthquake engineering seismoscope recordings and Eastern North America ground-motion attenuation relations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1390-1394

  Cramer, Chris H ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GROUND MOTIONS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; STRONG MOTION;

(EAST); BHUJ; GUJARAT; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0042740390     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020194     Document Type: Article

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