Local earthquake wave propagation through Mississippi embayment sediments, part I: Body-wave phases and local site responses

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2664-2684

  Langston, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; POISSON RATIO; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC WELL LOGS; SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1142292491     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030046     Document Type: Article

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