High-frequency earthquake ground-motion scaling in Utah and Yellowstone

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1644-1657

  Jeon, Young Soo ^a   Herrmann, Robert B ^a  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MINING; MOTION ESTIMATION; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; GROUND MOTION SCALING; SEISMOGRAMS; YELLOWSTONES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 12144282257     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003225     Document Type: Article

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