Empirical-stochastic ground-motion prediction for eastern North America

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2283-2296

  Tavakoli, Behrooz ^a   Pezeshk, Shahram ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FINITE FAULT MODELING; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 31544447218     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050030     Document Type: Article

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