An attenuation model for distant earthquakes

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-210

  Chandler, Adrian ^a   Lam, Nelson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Displacement; Distant; Earthquake; Ground shaking; Response spectrum

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

SAFETY HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 0842301363     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.342     Document Type: Article

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