Anomalous seismic amplitudes measured in the Los Angeles basin interpreted as a basin-edge diffraction catastrophe

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-164

  Husker, Allen L ^a   Kohler, Monica D ^a   Davis, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION; BODY-WAVE EFFECTS; CATASTROPHE THEORY; DIFFRACTION CATASTROPHE; LOCAL EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC AMPLITUDES; SEISMIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644512738     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040216     Document Type: Article

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