Detection of localized small-scale heterogeneities in the Hanshin-Awaji Region, Japan, by anomalous amplification of coda level

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1516-1530

  Tsuruga, Kayoko ^a   Yomogida, Kiyoshi ^b   Ito, Hisao ^c   Nishigami, Kin'ya ^d  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKES; SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COSEISMIC FAULT AREA;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLIFICATION; CODA; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; HETEROGENEITY; SEISMOGRAM; SITE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HANSHIN-AWAJI; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0242337642     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000002     Document Type: Article

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