Strong Motion Station Characterization and Site Effects during the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 653-675

  Rathje, Ellen M ^a   Stokoe II, Kenneth H ^a   Rosenblad, Brent ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

SPECTRAL ACCELERATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

BUILDING CODE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUND CONDITIONS; GROUND MOTION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; NONLINEARITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE EFFECT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY PROFILE;

DUZCE [DUZCE (PRV)]; DUZCE [TURKEY]; IZMIT; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 0142250901     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1596212     Document Type: Review

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