Evidence of low-frequency amplification in the city of L'Aquila, central Italy, through a multidisciplinary approach including strong- and weak-motion data, ambient noise, and numerical modelling

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1469-1481

  De Luca, Gaetano ^a   Marcucci, Sandro ^a   Milana, Giuliano ^b   Sanò, Tito ^a  

^a DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTS; SETTLING TANKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCELEROMETRIC RECORDINGS; GEOLOGICAL SECTION; GROUND-MOTION AMPLIFICATION; LOW-FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC WAVE;

ABRUZZI; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; L'AQUILA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

AQUILA;

EID: 24944500980     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030253     Document Type: Article

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