Site effect and its relationship to the intensity and damage observed in the June 27, 1998 Adana-Ceyhan Earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 913-930

  Yalcinkaya, Esref ^a   Alptekin, Omer ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adana Ceyhan; Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio; Intensity; Resonance; Site effect; Standard spectral ratio

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; SITE EFFECT; SOIL DYNAMICS;

ADANA [ADANA (PRV)]; ADANA [TURKEY]; CEYHAN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 17444417102     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2648-5     Document Type: Article

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