A study of the local magnitude scale in the Basin of Mexico: Mutually consistent estimates of log A0 and ground-motion scaling

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 605-613

  Ortega, Roberto ^a   Quintanar, Luis ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATTENUATION MODELS; EXCITATION LEVELS; LINEAR SEPARATION; PARAMETRIC EXPRESSIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; MAGNITUDE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VALLEY OF MEXICO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444363768     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030217     Document Type: Article

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