Validation of a 3D velocity model of the Puget Sound region based on modeling ground motion from the 28 February 2001 Nisqually earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1670-1689

  Pitarka, Arben ^a   Graves, Robert ^a   Somerville, Paul ^a  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LONG-PERIOD WAVES; PUGET SOUND; RIVER BASINS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) VELOCITY MODELS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NORTH AMERICA; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12144272443     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003177     Document Type: Article

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