Site effects at Euroseistest-I. Determination of the valley structure and confrontation of observations with 1D analysis

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-22

  Raptakis, D ^a   Chavez Garcia F J ^b   Makra, K ^a   Pitilakis, K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

2D model; Euroseistest; Frequency and time domains; Locally generated surface waves; Numerical modeling; Observations; Shear wave velocity; Site effect physics; Surface wave inversion

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EUROSEISTEST; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; VALLEY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 17344380049     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(99)00025-1     Document Type: Article

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