Mapping soil effects in Barcelona, Spain, through an integrated GIS environment

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-301

  Jimenez M J ^a   Garcia Fernandez M ^a   Zonno, G ^b   Cella, F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake hazard scenarios; GIS; Microzonation; Soil response

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE HAZARD SCENARIOS; MICROZONATION;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT; SOIL DYNAMICS;

SPAIN;

EID: 2542508339     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(00)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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