Strong ground motion and damage in the Taipei basin from the Moho reflected seismic waves during the March 31, 2002, Hualien, Taiwan earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Chen, Kou Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES;

GROUND MOTION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE; STRONG MOTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TAIPEI BASIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 0042913146     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017193     Document Type: Article

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