Attenuation relationships of peak ground acceleration and velocity for crustal earthquakes in Taiwan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1045-1058

  Liu, Kun Sung ^a   Tsai, Yi Ben ^b  

^a KAO YUAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (PGA); PEAK GROUND VELOCITY (PGV); SOFT SOILS;

TECTONICS;

PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

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

EID: 22744436436     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040162     Document Type: Article

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