Quantification of hanging-wall effects on ground motion: Some insights from the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2186-2197

  Chang, Tsui Yu ^a   Cotton, Fabrice ^b   Tsai, Yi Ben ^a   Angelier, Jacques ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHOCK WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOOTWALL STATIONS; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; HANGING-WALL EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; HANGING WALL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 14344255813     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030233     Document Type: Article

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