A comprehensive interpretation of strong motions in the Mexican Volcanic Belt

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 598-618

  Iida, Masahiro ^a   Kawase, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; MOTION ESTIMATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LAKE-BED ZONE; LARGE-AMPLITUDE SEISMOGRAMS; MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT (MVB);

VOLCANOES;

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; STRONG MOTION; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VALLEY OF MEXICO;

EID: 2542517732     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030059     Document Type: Article

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