A uniform approach to seismic site effect analysis in Bucharest, Romania

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 737-758

  Wirth, W ^a   Wenzel, F ^a   Sokolov, V Yu ^a   Bonjer, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bucharest; Uniform approach; Urban site effects

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES;

GROUND MOTION; PARAMETERIZATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION;

BUCHAREST; ROMANIA;

EID: 0242381196     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(03)00073-3     Document Type: Article

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