Effect of local geology on ground motion in the City of Palermo, Italy, as inferred from aftershocks of the 6 September 2002 Mw 5.9 earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2328-2341

  Di Giulio, Giuseppe ^a   Azzara, Riccardo Mario ^a   Cultrera, Giovanna ^a   Giammarinaro, Maria Stella ^b   Vallone, Paola ^b   Rovelli, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GROUND MOTION; LOCAL GEOLOGY; NOISE MEASUREMENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PALERMO [PALERMO (PRV)]; PALERMO [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 31544451288     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040219     Document Type: Article

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