Estimating site-specific strong earthquake motions

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-223

  Heuze, F ^a   Archuleta, R ^b   Bonilla, F ^b   Day, S ^c   Doroudian, M ^d   Elgamal, A ^e   Gonzales, S ^c   Hoehler, M ^a   Lai, T ^e   Lavallee, D ^b   Lawrence, B ^f   Liu, P C ^b   Martin, A ^b   Matesic, L ^d   Minster, B ^e   Mellors, R ^c   Oglesby, D ^f   Park, S ^f   Riemer, M ^g   Steidl, J ^b   Vernon, F ^e   Vucetic, M ^d   Wagoner, J ^a   Yang, Z ^e   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building codes; Earthquakes; Empirical Green's functions; Nonlinear soil dynamics; Probabilistic seismic hazard analyses; Seismic syntheses; Strong motions; Theoretical Green's functions; Vertical seismic arrays

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS (PSHA);

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10744229021     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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